Tumblr Engineering: Staircar: Redis-powered notifications →
Soon after I started at Tumblr all the way back in May, I was tasked with reworking our aging notifications system. A notification is the item that shows up in your dashboard, interleaved with posts, that tells you that another Tumblr blog reblogged or liked one of your posts or started following…
Our team just implemented a backend service in Redis as well (not nearly as large), and our experience was just as positive. Redis is an incredible piece of code.
