I use it as a poor man's job queue. cat jobs.txt | redis-pipe jobs An then on several workers: redis-pipe --count 10 jobs | python do-work.py | redis-pipe res

I use it as a poor man's job queue. cat jobs.txt | redis-pipe jobs An then on several workers: redis-pipe --count 10 jobs | python do-work.py | redis-pipe results An then in the end: redis-pipe results > results.txt Or you can use it as simple logging mechanism: tail -f /var/log/syslog | ./redis-pipe logs