Redis
NSQ vs Redis Messaging Systems: Production Architecture Comparison for High-Throughput Distributed Applications
17 min readWhen our real-time analytics platform started processing 50 million events per day, our homegrown message queue implementation collapsed under the load. With 200ms latency spikes …
Distributed Peer Indexing for Microservice Coordination
9 min readDistributed systems face a fundamental challenge: how to coordinate work across dynamically scaling instances without a central coordinator. This article explores a practical …
Decentralized Request Throttling for Distributed API Gateways
11 min readRate limiting is a critical aspect of API management, but implementing it in distributed environments presents unique challenges. This article explores a practical approach to …
Cache Misses Are Killing Your Application: How to Benchmark and Optimize Cache Hit Ratios
15 min readWhen applications start slowing down, our instinct is often to throw more hardware at the problem or spend days optimizing database queries. However, one of the most significant …
ElastiCache Redis Replication Group and RDS Proxy Limits
10 min readElastiCache Redis Replication Group and RDS Proxy Limits Two settings cause most of the confusion when you put ElastiCache in front of RDS and RDS Proxy between the application and …
Application-Level vs CDN-Level Caching: Strategic Implementation Guide
8 min readEffective caching is fundamental to scaling web applications. This article explores the strategic differences between application-level and CDN-level caching, with practical …
Redis Is Open Source Again. But Is It Too Late?
4 min readRedis 8 just landed—and with it, a stunning twist in the open source world. After a controversial license change in 2024 that sparked community uproar and gave rise to forks like …
Harbor Redis Crashlooping
3 min readMy Harbor server went offline when I patched one of my RKE2 clusters, which caused pods to go into ImagePullBackoff. Within a few minutes, I noticed that Redis was crashlooping …