Five Years

2017-02-06

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!

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By The Numbers

 1st Birthday2nd Birthday4th Birthday5th Birthday
Downloads214,3001,192,2595,505,14511,260,039
Stars2144353558467087
Closed Issues663142018872378
Forks26656310031247
Closed PRs228380836938
Versions4474110127
Customers25200675726
Employees0011

2016 Year in Review

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!