Redis sorted sets make leaderboards easy, until two players have the same score. Here is how we made ties fair, deterministic, and atomic.
A leaderboard looks like a one-command problem:
ZADD weekly 100 alice
ZADD weekly 100 bob
ZREVRANGE weekly 0 -1 WITHSCORES
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