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Upgrade the Sidekiq gem to v7.1.6 - 2nd attempt

Sylvester Chin requested to merge sc1-upgrade-sidekiq-gem-2nd-try into master

What does this MR do and why?

This MR upgrades Sidekiq from 6.5.12 to 7.1.6.

This is another attempt of !135185 (merged) with the following differences

The first commit is a revert of the revert.

There has been lengthy investigation regarding the impacts of Sidekiq 7 on the recent incident in gitlab-com/gl-infra/scalability#2564 (comment 1679414988) and we are confident that the gem upgrade did not cause the incident.

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