RailsConf 2025 The Past, Present and Future of Background Job... to Mike, Rosa, Maciej, and Ben

The Past, Present and Future of Background Jobs according to Mike, Rosa, Maciej, and Ben 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!