I've been mulling over a joke to the effect of "well maybe someone should fork the old MIT license redis to keep it going, and call it [good redis]", but does anyone use redis outside of corporate cloud scale software development? Like who else builds a nightmare microservice spaghetti monster only to realize in a panic that their "big data" fits entirely in ram?

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@aeva You'd (unfortunately) be surprised how often Redis is recommended as a task queue solution even in technical stacks where that would be solvable with a variable in global-ish scope (like JS)

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@aeva (This seems to have its roots in PHP's CGI-esque model that doesn't allow for long-running processes, therefore needing an external service for cross-request coordination? And that somehow got ported over to ecosystems that don't actually have that problem to begin with)

@joepie91 @aeva The Wikipedia entry for Redis credits/blames the Ruby community for the rise of Redis. Which makes sense, because I think the PHP developer community has never really coalesced around a single background processing toolset/pattern.

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