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title: "Discussion on \"A Cloud Guru Challenge - Improve Application Performance using ElastiCache Redis\" | Hashnode"
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# [A Cloud Guru Challenge - Improve Application Performance using ElastiCache Redis](https://blog.homelabforge.dev/acg-challenge-2021-elasticache-redis-terraform?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Submission for A Cloud Guru’s Jul 31, 2021 challenge: reduce API latency ~10s→0.3s using AWS ElastiCache (Redis) and Terraform. Architecture, code, benchmar

Jul 31, 2021 · 3 min read · blog.homelabforge.dev  
Updated Nov 2, 2025  
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Platform/DevOps engineer in Dublin bringing production-grade DevOps to homelabs and small teams. I write reproducible guides with Terraform, Ansible, Proxmox, CI/CD and security hardening—always with code, diagrams, and benchmarks. Currently publishing at HomelabForge and open to impactful platform work.

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