You know the cycle. Your team runs a great retro. People are honest. Three or four genuinely good action items go up on the board. Someone says "I'll put these in Jira." Everyone nods. Two weeks later you're sitting in the next retro and someone raises the same problem. That moment, multiplied across thousands of teams, is why a 2023 Scrum Alliance survey found only 35% of teams consistently compl
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