Sidekiq: Open source, business and the future
summary
Sidekiq is an open core background-job system that scales — a largest customer runs 250,000 jobs/sec — and uses Redis and multithreading to run jobs concurrently. The business model is Sidekiq Open Source plus paid Sidekiq Pro and Sidekiq Enterprise, grown to mid‑8‑figure revenue with 231 releases, ~7,000 issues and ~2,300 customers, zero VC, and a new $100k/year fellowship to fund Ruby maintenance.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Sidekiq introduction
- 1:15Sidekiq’s open source past
- 3:24Sidekiq’s business transition
- 5:36Sidekiq’s commercial success
- 7:20Open source ethos
- 8:45Sidekiq’s new features
- 9:46Open source future
- 13:19Open source governance
- 16:36gem.cop introduction
- 18:42Ruby Fellowship announced
- 21:34Q&A
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