Thundering Herd + Jitter

At Braintree it is no secret that we are big users of Ruby on Rails(RoR) . We are also big users of a component of RoR called ActiveJob . ActiveJob is an API abstraction on top of existing background job frameworks such as Sidekiq , Shoryuken and many more . In this blog post, I’m going to share how I was able to get a small feature merged into ActiveJob that stopped a persistent issue. Context We…