February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 33m
English
Remember the blocking PUSH/POP commands for a Redis list we introduced in the Using list data type recipe of Chapter 2, Data Types. As we demonstrated in that recipe, a Redis list can be used to implement a simple job queue. The widely-used Resque project, which is a Redis-backed Ruby library for job queuing, is based on this idea. With the RPOPLPUSH command, we can also implement reliable queues using Redis lists.
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