Sidekiq (Redis) vs Shoryuken (AWS SQS) 14 Mar 2015 DISCLAIMER: This post is not intended to compare Sidekiq and Shoryuken implementations. Both are very similar, actually Shoryuken started as a shameless copy of Sidekiq <3 open source. The idea of this post is to compare Sidekiq as a Redis based queue system with Shoryuken as a SQS client. Resque > Sidekiq > Shoryuken Before Sidekiq, Resque was th