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I used to use redis as a queue, but then I switched to beanstalkd:

http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/

That said I continue to use redis extensively, for storing data for dynamic websites (in preference to MySQL etc) and as a persistent cache for spam-testing, etc.

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Seconded. I've used both for queuing, and once you start using beanstalkd, it feels like it's built for queuing. Redis can be given this role, but it's a bit more work (and back and forth).

This may have changed with Lua scripting in Redis since now more advanced operations are scriptable, but until I see some good examples, it's beanstalkd for me =].