[Guzba]

Right now we don't have user accounts or anything mission critical to store. (Everything we use Redis for right now is essentially app state and we use it to managing cross-machine communications.)

When we have user accounts and other things like that, we'll have to think about how to do that the most reliable way as well, which may be Redis or may mean bringing Postgres into the mix. I think there's a lot of benefits to keeping the variety of technologies down so if we were to bring in another, it would need to offer something compelling that our current mix doesn't offer.

The major theme we were trying to highlight in this post is just how far Redis can take you if you're trying to build a component-based backend and need a way to handle the communication as well as the state of the system.