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Redis Streams seem pretty powerful. 

@sds is cooking up some plans to rewrite our background processor, using streams instead of Faktory (which we are outgrowing). 

anyone have positive/negative experience working with streams?

Building @warpcast and @farcaster. Previously Coinbase, Brigade, Causes.

Redis Streams seem pretty powerful. 

@sds is cooking up some plans to rewrite our background processor, using streams instead of Faktory (which we are outgrowing). 

anyone have positive/negative experience working with streams? 

https://redis.io/blog/youre-probably-thinking-about-redis-streams-wrong/

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

not sure if this has changed, but my issue with redis historically has been that it needs to scale vertically or be sharded. ime if you want queue semantics, just use a queue like rabbitmq or some other amqp server; there are lots of cloud hosted options if you don't want to manage it.

if you need more than just low level queueing, would go for flink