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redis
Use when using Redis or any Redis-protocol store (Valkey, ElastiCache, Upstash, Dragonfly, Memorystore) as a cache, queue, rate limiter or distributed lock and it has to be CORRECT rather than merely connected — stampede-proof caching, locks that cannot release someone else's hold, race-free rate limits, and jobs that survive a worker crash. NOT durable SQL queues with SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED (that is `postgresdb`), NOT vector similarity search over embeddings (that is `vector-db`).
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# Redis — cache, lock, rate limiter, queue done correctly
Redis is four primitives wearing one server: a **cache**, a **distributed lock**, a **rate
limiter**, and a **job queue**. Each has a correctness contract that has nothing to do with
whether `SET` returns `OK`. You almost certainly already "have Redis working" — a value goes
in, a value comes out. What you do not yet have is a cache that won't stampede your database, a
lock that won't release someone else's hold, a rate limiter that survives concurrent requests,
and a queue whose jobs aren't silently lost when a worker dies. This skill is engine- and
pattern-level, **client-SDK-agnostic**: examples are `redis-cli` and Lua, so they hold across
node-redis, ioredis, redis-py, go-redis, and Lettuce. Every pattern applies unchanged to Valkey
and any Redis-protocol store, since Valkey is a BSD fork of Redis 7.2 and stays protocol-compatible.
## When to use / When NOT
