That makes sense, thanks Dave! On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 5:15 PM, David Ormsbee <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wasn't on the team that did the work, but I was involved in some of the > early discussions. Some advantages of Redis over SQS for our purposes: > > * Better supported by Celery (e.g. monitoring) > * Less tied to AWS-specific infrastructure, but there's still an > AWS-managed option in ElastiCache > * In the longer term, we could replace Memcached with Redis, giving us a > more flexible cache and reducing the number of technologies needed to set > up and run Open edX. > > Take care. > > Dave > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:55 AM, Matjaz Gregoric <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> EdX has moved to Redis as the queuing backend for celery. >> >> Was SQS ever evaluated as a possible replacement for RabbitMQ? If it was, >> what were the reasons edX chose Redis instead? >> >> I am not questioning the decision at all, I'm just curious what the >> drawbacks of SQS are. >> >> Thanks, >> -- >> Matjaz Gregoric >> @OpenCraft >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "General Open edX discussion" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/edx-code/CALNP4Ff0JxYL6bcWMENHpTXOSfbP%2B8bwPYxv07FzDU1- >> dvwJpA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CALNP4Ff0JxYL6bcWMENHpTXOSfbP%2B8bwPYxv07FzDU1-dvwJpA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "General Open edX discussion" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/edx-code/CAO_oFPwqE22_GYMhj2Nq96EM9cPsd%2B6_ > ji9TCO40v%3DXdODB3Kg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CAO_oFPwqE22_GYMhj2Nq96EM9cPsd%2B6_ji9TCO40v%3DXdODB3Kg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Matjaz Gregoric @OpenCraft -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CALNP4FdhXwcEEiWJvSVdazG2AZUWa2Mx92fo%2BioYL01nFUtE-Q%40mail.gmail.com.
