[thaumasiotes]

> I was Director of Technical Operations at The Clymb, which was outdoor-focused e-commerce vendor (think REI without the stores). I had a team of four and we were responsible for site devops and infrastructure. This was perfect because they were my alpha customer and I was in charge of the tech stack. The Clymb switched to Sidekiq immediately, of course, and every Sidekiq Pro feature I wrote was running in production before it was released.

This makes me curious about either

(a) conflict-of-interest rules at The Clymb that may or may not have governed the DTO directing the company to use his own separately-owned (commercial?) software.

(b) negotiating private ownership of software written for The Clymb.

One of those must have been relevant?

[mperham]

I started work on Sidekiq right before I joined so I made sure my employment contract had a IP carve out for anything related to Sidekiq.

I never charged The Clymb to use the software. Previously they had been using delayed_job and were suffering badly from scale issues due to the use of MySQL as their queue store.