Explain Sidekiq's architecture and its main components.

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Sidekiq has three main components: Client (pushes jobs to Redis from web process), Redis (stores jobs in queues), and Server (pulls and executes jobs in worker process). The client serializes jobs to JSON, Redis maintains ordered queues, and the server uses threads to process jobs concurrently

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