This gem provides an API for parallel processing like the parallel gem but distributed and scalable over different machines. All this with minimum configuration and minimum dependencies to specific technologies and using the rails ecosystem. Dipa provides a rails engine which depends on ActiveJob and ActiveStorage. You can use whatever backend you like for any of this components and configure them for your specific usecase. The purpose of this gem is to distribute load heavy and long running processing of large datasets over multiple processes or machines using ActiveJob.