GoodJob, Solid Queue, Sidekiq, Active Job, in 2026

Hey, I’m Ben, the author of GoodJob. Last year at RailsConf I hosted a panel discussion between myself, Solid Queue’s Rosa Gutiérrez, Sidekiq’s Mike Perham, and Karafka and Shoryuken’s Maciej Mensfield called “The Past Present and Future of Background Jobs”. You can watch that video here . In this post, I’m writing my personal perspective on how you, dear developer, might decide what background…