Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL
There’s a tried-and-true architecture that I’ve seen many times for supporting your web services and applications:
PostgreSQL for data storage
Redis for coordinating background job queues (and some limited atomic operations)
Redis is fantastic, but what if I told you that its most common use cases for this stack could actually be achieved using only PostgreSQL?
Use Case 1: Job Queuing
Perhaps the most common use of Redis I’ve seen is to coordinate dispatching of jobs from your web service to a p...
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