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River is a durable background job system for Ruby on Rails, designed for reliability, observability, and simplicity. It provides persistent queues, native Active Job support, automatic retries, and real-time job monitoring through its admin interface. River focuses on clear diagnostics, performance, and minimal configuration, making it ideal for production-ready job handling in Rails apps.

...It allows developers to wrap critical code sections with database-level locks to prevent race conditions across concurrent processes or threads. It’s especially useful in distributed systems, background job processing, or scheduled tasks where application-level mutexes aren't sufficient.