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by robertlagrant 521 days ago
> more a set of fast network-shared, generic data structures

Exactly. It's a distributed list, map, etc that is often used as a cache, and sometimes as a queue, but it's bigger than all that.

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"sometimes as a queue"

Oh? I'd be interested in hearing more about that. Is this common?

Just google "langname redis queue"