I am using in my app a background job system (Sidekiq) to manage some heavy job that should not block the UI.
I would like to transmit data from the background job to the main thread when the job is finished, e.g. the status of the job or the data done by the job.
At this moment I use Redis as middleware between the main thread and the background jobs. It store data, status,... of the background jobs so the main thread can read what it happens behind.
My question is: is this a good practice to manage data between the scheduled job and the main thread (using Redis or a key-value cache)? There are others procedures? Which is best and why?