Panel: The Past, Present and Future of Background Jobs
Ben Sheldon, Mike Perham, Rosa Gutiérrez, and Maciej Mensfeld • Philadelphia, PA • Panel

Date: July 09, 2025
Published: not published
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Join a discussion between Sidekiq’s Mike Perham, Solid Queue’s Rosa Gutiérrez, Karafka and Shoryuken’s Maciej Mensfeld, and GoodJob’s Ben Sheldon.

This panel hosts the maintainers of the four most well-known Active Job backends. They’ll discuss and reflect on their different approaches, philosophies, capabilities, and challenges to powering background jobs and integrating with Active Job.

The discussion will cover a range of topics including performance, feature-sets, support, commercialization, regrets, visions of the future, questions from the audience, and more!

RailsConf 2025