[lbruder]

It just works, until PUSHing the member back fails. At least use RPOPLPUSH and a separate worker queue to make sure you don't accidentally drop packets.

Don't get me wrong, I'm using Redis queues myself and trying to get rid of the last remnants of RabbitMQ in our code, but there are use cases where RabbitMQ means less thinking about stuff, because it just works(tm)...

[jlouis]

The other classic variant here is when msg is poisonous. Then pushing it back onto the queue means it'll go again at some point, poisoning your system again.

In practice, you need some dead-lettering with a message timeout. Something RabbitMQ does provide out of the box, for all its complexity.