Silver: A Redis-backed cacher, indexer

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Good to see Talking Points Memo join the ranks of journalistic outlets that are open-sourcing their useful in-house stuff.

So what is this really? Starting to move things that were once handled by bloated databases into the application layer?

I've heard Redis is pretty far from a full featured database, but I don't see why you couldn't build most features on top of it. Like CouchDB style auto updating views, which let you do more advanced queries etc..

Is that where they're going?

Look at ohm and ohm-contrib on GitHub. That's an awesome layer for redis. Essentially they do what your describe which is use an additional keyspace for storing indices you want. It takes full advantage of the native redistribution datatypes to do it. I pretty much love ohm because of how close to bare redis they keep it.

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