[rubyfan]

Queues are not a ruby specific thing, nor are they particularly pervasive within Rails apps. Having a good framework to handle them doesn’t make it the only tool in the tool belt. On the contrary, the fact that Rails has good tools to fit many different types of system architecture needs is a counterpoint of your assertion.

[nkraft11]

Sort of. In this case the lack of multithreading led engineers to using sidekiq as a stand in.