Redis as shared memory/state for lots of small processes
Redis is a decent high level tool for this, and then you could write
lots of little programs in whatever language(s) you liked; if you
have some simblance of what the data structure should look like, it
might make an interoperable mess, but could be a fun one.
Anongenering
Sort of the dailywtf, but long form and not necessiarly funny.