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[waitingkuo]

What's the benefit to use Redis pipe instead of Unix pipes?

[bytesandbots → waitingkuo]

I guess it might be very useful in a cloud like environment where you use this set up to pipe data across scaled up servers.

[morgenkaffee → bytesandbots]

I use it as a poor man's job queue.

cat jobs.txt | redis-pipe jobs

An then on several workers: redis-pipe --count 10 jobs | python do-work.py | redis-pipe results

An then in the end: redis-pipe results > results.txt

Or you can use it as simple logging mechanism: tail -f /var/log/syslog | ./redis-pipe logs

[eddd → morgenkaffee]

Poor man's job queue is celery with redis backend i guess.

[morgenkaffee → eddd]

Mine is even more poor :)