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
Day 13 of 100 Days of Solana — Reflecting on Reading On-Chain Data When I started this challenge two weeks ago with Major League Hacking(MLH), I thought blockchain was just a ledger with transactions. I was wrong—and that realization is worth writing about. Before I touched any code, I imagined blockchain data like this: Transactions sit in a database somewhere I'd need special permission to read