RailsConf 2015 - Processes and Threads - Resque vs. Sidekiq

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Published on May 12, 2015 4:24:37 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8X96hMaRXI

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By, James Dabbs
Background job processing is an important component of most large Rails applications. Two of the most common solutions - Resque and Sidekiq - are largely differentiated by one underlying architectural decision: processes or threads?

Is this talk, we'll provide a gentle introduction to threads and processes, and then crack open the Resque and Sidekiq gems to see how they work. Along the way, we'll learn a bit about concurrency at the OS and Ruby layers, and about how some of the tools we rely on every day are written.