> Redis streams aren’t exciting for their innovativeness, but rather than they bring building a unified log architecture within reach of a small and/or inexpens

> Redis streams aren’t exciting for their innovativeness, but rather than they bring building a unified log architecture within reach of a small and/or inexpensive app. Kafka is infamously difficult to configure and get running, and is expensive to operate once you do. Pricing for a small Kafka cluster on Heroku costs $100 a month and climbs steeply from there. It’s temping to think you can do it more cheaply yourself, but after factoring in server and personnel costs along with the time it takes to build working expertise in the system, it’ll cost more. This. Precisely this. Redis Streams, if done right, will be a killer feature. Redis is already pretty much omnipresent and has a great managed cloud story (e.g. Elasticache). And it's cheap.