found an issue with the redis/with-transaction
macro using the MULTI/EXEC Redis commands 
screwing up the Redis connection and dropping off;
removed all instances of redis/with-transaction
until the problem can be remedied

LREM should be entirely removed now also

LTRIM'ing the worker runtime lists so they don't
grow any larger than we need them to be
Merge branch 'replace_lrem', remote-tracking branch 'origin'
fixing merge conflict