This is pretty neat. I've taken a similar approach in writing an irc bot using evented PHP and phergie-irc-client-react using redis to pass JSONed messages back

This is pretty neat. I've taken a similar approach in writing an irc bot using evented PHP and phergie-irc-client-react using redis to pass JSONed messages back and forth between services. It's surprising more IRC bots aren't taking advantage of message queue type architecture instead of monolithic plugin based bots.