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
Most of the "I built an AI workflow" posts you see on here treat Claude like a fancy text box. Open chat, paste prompt, copy answer, ship. That's fine for solo dev tasks. It falls apart fast when you start building for someone else's business, especially one with strict confidentiality, compliance baggage, and a workflow that runs on documents. I've been building Claude-powered tooling for law fir