Throttling jobs

[mhenrixon]

I have received a lot of questions about how to throttle jobs using sidekiq-unique-jobs. After searching for throttling sidekiq jobs I ended up with sidekiq-throttler. Which seams like a pretty straight forward way of doing what most people want with the uniqueness expiration.

Is throttling jobs something that should exist in the sidekiq-unique-jobs gem or should we remove all expiration completely and tell people to use sidekiq-throttler instead?

The reason for clearing jobs in the first place was that some jobs never got cleared ever so no new such jobs could be scheduled however in a recent release of sidekiq @mperham added clearing of stale jobs after 60 minutes meaning we could only ever keep jobs for 60 minutes or we would have to turn to another solution. I am still undecided on how to proceed here so any suggestions you have are greatly appreciated.