Articles tagged with "Sidekiq"

On breaking changes in transitive dependencies

a story of a change, that broke Sidekiq's reliability promises

Now and then you receive a report about something not working as expected. This time it was scarier than usual: a job, killed by Docker after consuming too much memory with an OOM error, was disappearing from the queue without a trace. In production, we deploy sidekiq-pro for its reliability guarantees, specifically super_fetch strategy for pulling work from the queue, and normally should re-queue the job after a restart.