Point to point

[Adam]

I’m new to Redis and am considering using it to leverage the messaging transport. I’ve heard that it can support point to point outside of pubsub. Could someone please explain how this is possible?
Thank you

[hva...@gmail.com]

It sounds like you're talking about the feature currently in testing named Redis Streams:  https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro

There have been a couple of discussion threads about it in this mailing list.  Try a search as well as the above documentation page.

[Adam]

I see the streams could be used to process initial values where the data is incremental; similar to their excellent log file example.

In a client-server application, both the clients and severs, who wish to receive/send redis messages, will be redis clients? And they will always send data to other redis clients through the redis server; the intermediary hop is unavoidable?

Would it be useful, or good practice, to ever write a client-server application whereby the application server logic was IN the redis server? Or to put it another way, would an application server ever embed a redis server object, thereby allowing it to communicate with its clients? My guess is this could be a poor decision.

Thanks for the assistance.