Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Adding a Queue Based Service

In this recipe, we will create a simple asynchronous event recording service. In this context asynchronous means that we will expose the service over a queue rather than a direct point to point connection.

We will be using Redis as a our queue mechanism, specifically we're using a Redis list structure with the LPUSH and BRPOP commands to make a FIFO queue.

Redis and Node We cover using Redis with Node in the Storing and Retrieving Data with Redis reciepe in Chapter 6, Persisting to Databases holds.