It really pisses me off to see Redis described as a caching system. Yes it's good for caching, but it can do far more than just that. E.g the blocking list ope

It really pisses me off to see Redis described as a caching system. Yes it's good for caching, but it can do far more than just that. E.g the blocking list operations can be used to make lightweight ad-hoc communication channels - I'm using this in a project just now. Loadable Lua functions mean you can embed significant application logic in Redis - I've not used this yet but I intend to soon.