Faye or Redis Pubsub

Question

I thought I understood this technology, but maybe I don\'t. What\'s the difference between the two? Why would you choose one over the other?

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Answer 1

Redis publish/subscribe is a very simple system for internal use in a server cluster - it requires an open connection to redis (unauthenticated and giving complete access to everything in redis).

Obviously this is the most efficient way to handle scenarios where this is appropriate, but if you need authentication, reliable delivery, or http connections you will need to add a more complete messaging system on top of redis. Faye is one of the options in this space.