Yesterday I explained how a good background job framework is critical to scaling business applications. Today, meet Faktory. I’ve spent the last six months building Faktory, a new background job system which aims to bring the best practices developed over the last five years in Sidekiq to every programming language. The Basics Faktory is a server daemon which provides a simple API to produce and consume background jobs. Here’s the chatter to create and execute a background job:
Jobs below the API
Back in February, Peter Reinhardt published his fairly widely circulated blog post Replacing Middle Management with APIs. (If you haven’t read it already, do so now.)
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There’s a trend in Silicon Valley startups to create a software layer in industries that were traditionally pure human services. Uber and Lyft have created software layers in the taxi industry, 99designs Tasks in the visual design industry, Homejoy in the cleaning industry, and so on. These new software services employ armies of human workers, optimizing their output, productivity and quality while driving price down.
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Best Skills That Actually Get You Hired (2026)Backend – APIs (REST + GraphQL), Auth (JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC), DB Design (SQL + NoSQL), Caching (Redis/CDN), Rate Limiting, Queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), Event-driven architecture, Idempotency, API versioning, Observability…— gxjo (@gxjo_dev) April 9, 2026
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