CMChris Mowforthinblog.hardpoint.dev·Oct 3 · 18 min readRedis isolation and alternatives in 2026In many ways, Redis is grounded in a (rather admirable) design philosophy of brutal simplicity. It's a thing that runs as a single process, you store keys and values; you can store many more data stru10
CMChris Mowforthinblog.hardpoint.dev·Sep 24 · 10 min readHow hot do you like it?The concept of splitting data resident in a Redis™ cluster between RAM and slower/cheaper non-volatile storage is something that's firmly gaining traction: all the major Redis-like vendors either offe00
CMChris Mowforthinblog.hardpoint.dev·Sep 13 · 7 min readRedis Durability, Reconsidered: How Invar Closes the WAIT GapOverview Invar is a diskless document store that speaks the Redis™ wire protocol. Unlike Redis or its spiritual descendants such as ValKey, KeyDB or even DragonflyDB, it doesn't primarily aim to be an10
CMChris Mowforthinblog.hardpoint.dev·Aug 24 · 15 min readAnnouncing Invar: A diskless transactional document DBtl;dr - we've built a diskless NoSQL document database called Invar. It has well-defined durability guarantees, speaks Redis' native wire protocol, and persists data to S3-compatible object storage. W10
CMChris Mowforthinblog.hardpoint.dev·May 6 · 9 min readSovereign edge for everyone: What Hardpoint is, and where we're goingtl;dr Our MVP is in public Alpha, go check it out! The MVP addresses some key networking pain points with serverless workloads. Things that should be easy but aren't: Safely connect a Vercel project 10
