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Trying to work out how fit mailinator into Redis rather than questioning if Redis fits into mailinator is exactly the cargo-cult cool-kids zombism I was ranting

Trying to work out how fit mailinator into Redis rather than questioning if Redis fits into mailinator is exactly the cargo-cult cool-kids zombism I was ranting against, though ;) You really can process mailinator- quantities of email with a simple Java server using a synchronized hash-map and linked list LRU and have some CPUs left over for CPU-intensive opportunistic LZMAing. Trying to do it with IPC TCP ping-pong for each and every line though; well I'm not sure you could process mailinator quantities of email within any reasonable hardware budget... Luckily you have a chance to see the error of your ways :)

gizzlon 15y ago
Well, I never claimed Redis should be used for this, you are the one who asked how to do it. But you have to remember that most people can't have important data in just one process; it's going to crash and your data is gone. The LMAX guys solved this in a cool way, but I wouldn't call it easy: http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html#KeepingItAllInMemory http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html#KeepingItAllInMem...
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- willvarfar 15y ago
  Sorry, threads get hard to follow after a while. I did a pretty popular blog-post about how Redis is crazy for this. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620712 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620712 The post is mostly about style and mindset. But in the comments I do take to task the whole technical merits of Redis for this: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-bad#comment-446733732 http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-... That Redis LRU and replies with node.js really baited me; I'm trolled :)
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