Incorporating redis database in the mediadrop stack

[Adam Morris]

Hi Felix et all,

I've been playing around with redis, and also looking at the mediadrop code. Seems to me there are a bunch of features that we could be using redis for.

http://redis.io

The 'latest' query. At the moment it gets all the media that has been published and sorts it. We could implement that in a redis by using a simple queue with a given amount of elements.

Likes. To get the feature so that only one IP address can like an item at a time:

if redis.sadd('likes.IPs.{}'.format(media.id)):

   redis.incr('likes.counter.{}'.format(media.id))

Statistics, a good way to track usage information without hitting the mysql database.

The downside though is that it add a bit more complexity to the stack. Although, that's not very hard to do...

These are just thoughts at the moment.

Adam