Durable Sidekiq jobs: how to maximize reliability of Sidekiq and Redis

Sidekiq is one of the most popular (if not the most popular one) background job framework in Ruby world, which is not a big surprise: it allows to achieve a decent throughput, is stable and well-maintained, has some great features (including also all the gems extending its built-in functionality) and is easy to get started with. It seems like you could simply install Redis, add Sidekiq to your application and you are good to go!