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A very tiny clone of Redis for experimenting with PubSub

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2020-11-15 · latest 2025-05-01

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  1. Great to see this. 12 years ago I wrote https://github.com/rcarmo/miniredis during a very slow weekend where I both wanted to get a feel for the internals of how Redis worked and have a little PubSub server I could call my own. I spent the…
    comment by rcarmo · 2025-05-01 · in Redis is open source again
  2. …in every new language or runtime, or when I want to explore threading models. It all started with https://github.com/rcarmo/miniredis (which I forked to add and experiment with pub/sub), and I just found myself doing it again and again…
  3. …"toy" implementation for a long time. The source for it isn't public, but it's based off this: https://github.com/rcarmo/miniredis I use it as a single-file, mock Redis server for CI testing :)