Five Years

Five years ago, I published v0.5.0 of a little project I had great hopes for.
Here we are five years later: I’ve gone from selling $50 licenses to negotiating five-figure enterprise
deals with the Fortune 500. Five five five!

Gimme Five!

By The Numbers

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	1st Birthday	2nd Birthday	4th Birthday	5th Birthday
Downloads	214,300	1,192,259	5,505,145	11,260,039
Stars	2144	3535	5846	7087
Closed Issues	663	1420	1887	2378
Forks	266	563	1003	1247
Closed PRs	228	380	836	938
Versions	44	74	110	127
Customers	25	200	675	726
Employees	0	0	1	1

2016 Year in Review

• Sidekiq
  
  • Rails 5.0 support
  
  
  • Dropped Sinatra dependency
  
  
  • 16 bug fix releases
  
  


• Sidekiq Pro
  
  • timed_fetch and super_fetch algorithms
  
  
  • 17 bug fix releases
  
  


• Sidekiq Enterprise
  
  • Job data encryption
  
  
  • Multi-Process with memory monitoring
  
  
  • Web UI authorization
  
  

You Want Five?

Sidekiq 5.0 beta is now
ready for testing in non-production environments. The internals have
been redesigned to work better with Rails 5.0. It no longer supports
older Rubies: Ruby 2.2.2+ only. Read the upgrade notes for more details.

gem 'sidekiq', '5.0.0.beta1'

I still believe Ruby is the most fun, most flexible, highest level language
out there for building business applications and Sidekiq is the best
framework for processing business transactions. The two are a potent
combination.

Here’s to another great five years!