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 remember when we met. It feels like forever ago. Was it 2003? We'd talk for hours. Deep into the night. One number press at a time. Because that's how it was back then. And we learned from each other. Tons, actually. And we both improved over the years. We both grew. A lot. But I don't think I grew into something I like. But I mean, I didn't really mean to become what I am. Just some t