Messaging with Redis technologies

In distributed systems design, a popular usage pattern is to implement a message queue where producers and consumers communicate across a middleware platform. The producers and consumers are not necessarily running on the same machine with the messaging backend that may not use Redis's own Pub/Sub commands.

Messaging with Disque

In early 2015, Salvatore Sanfilippo announced and then released the first alpha release of a new distributed message broker project called Disque, with the source code available at https://github.com/antirez/disque. Disque is based on the Redis protocol, but does not actually use the Redis server. Redis clients can communicate and use Disque; however, a number of language-specific Disque clients for many of the most popular programming languages have been released and are available from the Disque's GitHub main page.

To get Disque running is similar to Redis. First, open a terminal window and either clone the Disque repository with...