Why I Built a Job Queue With SQLite Instead of Redis (And What I Learned)

I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based storage with no persistence by default A whole new failure mode: what happens when Redis goes down? I'm r