As the author of Sidekiq, I'd very strongly disagree. The key thing you are missing in those systems is long-term error handling. What happens if the remote sid

As the author of Sidekiq, I'd very strongly disagree. The key thing you are missing in those systems is long-term error handling. What happens if the remote side goes down for a few hours? This is the purpose of *persistent* background jobs: resiliency in the face of a wild west Internet.