I was also wondering what they are using Redis for; found this article [1] from a while ago discussing Redis at Github; presumably the architecture has moved on

I was also wondering what they are using Redis for; found this article [1] from a while ago discussing Redis at Github; presumably the architecture has moved on a bit since then, but this may shed a bit of light on the subject. [1]: https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast