[HN Gopher] Redis Backplane for Hubots
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       Redis Backplane for Hubots
        
       Author : gijoeyguerra
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-10-14 03:25 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | gijoeyguerra wrote:
       | Leveraged Redis Consumer Groups to create a backplane for Hubots
       | - enabling horizontally scaling Hubot instances.
        
       | rileytg wrote:
       | hubot is still an active project??
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       | i haven't heard much about it since pre-slack era... does anyone
       | here still use it?
        
         | danpalmer wrote:
         | I used it in ~2018-2020 on Slack (as well as waaay back on
         | Campfire), and it was showing its age. The Node ecosystem, for
         | all its faults, has come a long way since Hubot was created,
         | and working with Hubot felt dated. I believe the original was
         | written in CoffeScript!
         | 
         | That said, if all you want is a few quick scripts hooked up to
         | chat, it's still pretty low effort. Alternatives require a fair
         | bit more setup, and while they're better for it, maybe you
         | don't need that.
        
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