What does AWS SQS do in Ruby on Rails?

Handles job queues and messages scalably, via Shoryuken or ActiveJob—no Redis needed.

How to set up Shoryuken workers in Rails?

Gem install, yml config, include Worker module, run with -R -C flags. Tweak eager_load for Rails recog.

Sidekiq for speed/simplicity; SQS for massive scale/multi-app. Test your load.

Your Rails jobs are bottlenecking. AWS SQS promises scalability, but Shoryuken setup? It's fiddly. Here's the no-BS path, pitfalls included.

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