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by bradrydzewski 3595 days ago
The use case would be implementing the redis protocol for client server communication in your own software. There is a specification for using the redis protocol [1]. The fact that redis is widely used and there are a number of client libraries in many languages may make it an attractive option compared to creating your own protocol from scratch.

I believe disque, the distributed message broker [2] uses the redis protocol for client server communication.

[1] http://redis.io/topics/protocol [2] https://github.com/antirez/disque