Implementing Message Queues with Redis: Lists, Zsets, Pub/Sub, and Streams
This article explains how Redis can be used to build lightweight, high‑performance message queues by leveraging lists for simple queues, sorted sets for delayed delivery, Pub/Sub for multicast, and the Stream data structure for durable, scalable messaging, while also covering practical PHP implementations, acknowledgment, retry, graceful restart, and rate‑limiting techniques.
