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		danpalmer on Jan 21, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kronotop: Redis-compatible, transactional document... The awesome thing about Redis is that it's less a "cache" and more a set of fast network-shared, generic data structures. To have that then also be transactional and durable would be really handy sometimes.

robertlagrant on Jan 21, 2025 [–]

> more a set of fast network-shared, generic data structures

Exactly. It's a distributed list, map, etc that is often used as a cache, and sometimes as a queue, but it's bigger than all that.

neverartful on Jan 22, 2025 | [–]

"sometimes as a queue"

Oh? I'd be interested in hearing more about that. Is this common?

ddorian43 on Jan 22, 2025 | | [–]

Just google "langname redis queue"

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