Public Relations Blast

2017-01-18

Apologies, dear reader, it’s been a while since I blogged; I’ve been busy with many things for the last few months:

1. We bought a house and moved, kid started kindergarten.
2. I rewrote Sidekiq Pro’s reliable_fetch into super_fetch, feedback has been quite good with no bugs reported and nice performance improvements noted by the Baremetrics team.
3. I’ve pushed out 8 patch releases, trying to stabilize Sidekiq 4.2’s new Rails 5 support. Not my finest hour, but on the positive side I wrote an integration test suite to verify Sidekiq’s job execution functionality with Rails 4/5 dev/prod.
4. I attended Rubyconf 2016 in Cincinnati, it was a high-quality conference as usual from the Ruby Cental folks.
5. I’ve done 4-5 different interviews on my business and how it’s grown over the last few years.

Business

The last point wasn’t really planned but snowballed. I decided to interview with IndieHackers on a lark and it turns out that several others wanted to interview me based on my success so far.

• IndieHackers
• The SaaS Bootstrapper
• Starting and Sustaining
• Thoughtbot

The net takeaway is that Sidekiq sales are going very well, revenue grew about +75% in 2016, and Sidekiq is now the dominant background solution for Ruby, according to Infinum’s Rubygems analysis.

What’s Next?

Sidekiq 5.0!