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by joelbluminator 2230 days ago
> Why would you need an external service for that? It's adding complexity -- and likely hosting costs.

We're also dependent on mysql, are you gonna implement that in Elixir as well? Redis is a great piece of software, and it's a real SHARED cache, so it could work for sessions or other small state management you sometimes want to remember for example. What you described won't work for that.
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pdimitar 2230 days ago
Both are not equal at all. Redis you can definitely do without. A database you can't skip in most apps.

Sessions work quite fine in Elixir's local cache as well. :)

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joelbluminator 2230 days ago
> Redis you can definitely do without.

This seems to suggest otherwise https://hex.pm/packages/redix, Why is the redis client is so popular in Elixir world? For such a small community 3+ million downloads is huge.

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pdimitar 2230 days ago
Hint: it's most likely habit.

It's no accident that there's even a library that emulates OOP patterns in Elixir.

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