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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