1. Toys of the week: pika and redis

    Always interested in loose coupling and distributed processing I’ve finally got around to playing with Redis, the key-value store that has typed values and also provides pub/sub messaging. One value type is a list from which one can pop and to which one can push and I’ve been playing with this using the Python redis-py library. 

    Redis is intriguing as it is an alternative, for some use cases, to my message bus solution of choice: AMQP, usually implemented by RabbitMQ. The Python AMQP libraries have always been a bit tricky to work with - not playing well with threads and not providing concurrency. pika, it would seem, is what I’ve been waiting for. Time to find out.

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