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
If you’ve been around data engineering long enough, you’ve probably heard these terms thrown around in meetings: “Just dump it in the data lake” “We’ll expose it through the warehouse” “That goes into the mart” “We’re moving to a lakehouse architecture” And honestly… it can sound like four different ways of saying the same thing. They’re not. Each one solves a slightly different problem in the dat