Sidekiq quiz

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What is a Sidekiq "middleware," conceptually similar to Rack middleware in a web request context?

1. What is a Sidekiq "middleware," conceptually similar to Rack middleware in a web request context?
2. What is a Sidekiq "queue," and why might an application use multiple named queues (like `default`, `mailers`, `critical`)?
3. What is a "sidekiq process" (or worker process) actually doing while running, at a high level?
4. What is a realistic scaling consideration for a Sidekiq deployment as an application's background job volume grows significantly?
5. What does scheduling a job for future execution, e.g. `MyWorker.perform_in(1.hour, user_id)`, allow an application to do?
6. What is Sidekiq?
7. What is Sidekiq's web-based dashboard UI (Sidekiq::Web) typically used for?
8. Why do web applications commonly offload certain tasks (like sending an email or resizing an uploaded image) to a background job system like Sidekiq instead of doing that work directly within the HTTP request/response cycle?
9. Why is it important for Sidekiq jobs to be designed to be "idempotent" (safe to run more than once with the same effect), given the retry mechanism?
10. What does it mean to "enqueue" a job in Sidekiq, e.g. calling `MyWorker.perform_async(user_id)`?
11. What does Sidekiq's automatic retry mechanism do when a job raises an exception during execution?
12. What is a common alternative to Sidekiq in the Ruby background job ecosystem, and how does it differ architecturally?

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