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+title: "Python and Redis"
+date: 2018-01-02T21:16:01-05:00
+draft: true
+tags: ["python", "redis"]
+---
+
+# Python, Redis, and You
+
+As a developer I've used a lot of NoSQL stores for a lot of things. Usually as
+messaging substrates, but also to hold volatile data as well. My favorite is to
+employ these services as a message queue between different applications. In past
+projects that I have been a part of, we have had several microservices running
+at the same time in AWS that needed a scalable means to talk to eachother. With
+some REST. Ha, so most times what we reached for a key-value store known as
+Redis.
+
+## Some key points
+
+What Redis has offered us was a scalable nosql db