Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based

Author here. I opened the Solid Queue fiber-worker PR because I needed Rails background jobs to handle long-running LLM streams without allocating a worker thread per conversation.

The implementation shipped today in Solid Queue 1.6.0. It uses one Async reactor thread per fiber worker, keeps thread workers available for CPU-bound or blocking jobs, and requires fiber-scoped Rails isolation.

One caveat: the benchmark results in the article were produced from the pre-release PR branch. I’ve marked that clearly and will rerun the suite against the 1.6.0 tag over the next few weeks.

Happy to answer implementation or Active Record connection-pool questions.