15:52:36 GMT <_Atom_> hello
15:53:28 GMT <_Atom_> can someone explain to me what is exactly redis and does?
16:45:03 GMT <minus> redis is redis and does magic
16:45:39 GMT <minus> if you ever heard of memcached, it's that on steroids. an in-memory cache server with plenty additional features
16:45:44 GMT <minus> ^ _Atom_
16:46:28 GMT <_Atom_> unfortunately i'm not familiar with memcached
16:46:43 GMT <_Atom_> but, after reading up on redis i feel like i have a better understanding of what it has to offer
16:46:56 GMT <_Atom_> is it generally used a "middle man" when querying databases?
16:48:39 GMT <minus> it doesn't really sit in the middle, but your program can put stuff in redis after fetching it from the DB so it can fetch that stuff again later, but faster than from the DB
22:25:45 GMT <solrize> it would be interesting to have a completely in-process version of redis that uses a shared memory region for concurrent access