Most components of SIC create a connection to Redis, so that they can send and receive messages/requests. This is done through the SICRedis class.
Authorization
SICRedis looks in environment for DB_IP and DB_PASS
DB_IP defaults to localhost and DB_PASS defaults to ‘changemeplease’
Messages and requests
A component can implement two callbacks, on_message() and on_request().
A request must be met with a reply