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Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL

There’s a tried-and-true architecture that I’ve seen many times for supporting your web services and applications:

  • PostgreSQL for data storage
  • Redis for coordinating background job queues (and some limited atomic operations)

Redis is fantastic, but what if I told you that its most common use cases for this stack could actually be achieved using only PostgreSQL?

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