Publish/Subscribe

Better known as Pub/Sub, this allows users to be alerted to updates on channels. When a message is published to a channel, Redis sends the message to all of the subscribers. This functionality has many uses for multi-user or social websites, mainly around notifications for chat messages, tweets, emails, and other events.

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