I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it