Here’s a compelling case against using Sidekiq, even though it’s often praised for being 15 times faster than Solid Queue or ActiveJob when processing an empty job. While that speed sounds impressive, it’s not the whole story—and there are good reasons to think twice before choosing it.

When rate limiting jobs, I use a simple redis rate limit lua script that I posted here: https://mhenrixon.com/articles/client-side-rate-limiter , and I also use a similar scheduler to spread the jobs out. This is how I do it

Redis default configuration needs to change for a sidekiq queue backend. This is how you do it right!