Queues

Queues are ordered lists of values. New values can be appended to the end of a queue with CacheProviderRedis::queueRPush, or prepended to the beginning with CacheProviderRedis::queueLPush. You then can use CacheProviderRedis::queueRPop to extract a value from the end of the queue and CacheProvider::queueLPop to extract it from the beginning.

Queues are great to store events in the same order as they arrive. For example, they're a really efficient way of storing an ordered log of page views, even if your pages get a huge amount of traffic. In a separate process that runs automatically every few minutes, you can then retrieve those page view events and store them in a database for persistence.