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simonw on Oct 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pastry: A distributed hash table in Go

Why didn't you want to use redis?

If you're going to have any component that's a single point of failure, redis is a pretty good bet for it.

paddyforan on Oct 20, 2012 [–]

That it is. I love redis.

I just really didn't want to have a single point of failure. Really badly. Pastry has no single point of failure.

[edit] Realised this thread isn't actually all about me. Oops! Sorry for answering a question not directed at me.

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