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Tiger Abrodi
Obsessed with crafting software.
Introduction At Spawn we use redis for many things beyond caching. I wanted to write a post about why Redis is fast but also the upsides of Redis being single threaded. The Speed Problem Your app talks to a database. Probably PostgreSQL or MySQL. The...
Tiffany Spark
Web designer in London. Clean code, good design, strong coffee.
the single-threaded event loop explanation finally made Redis click for me. I use it for session caching on client sites and always just trusted it was fast without really understanding why. the I/O multiplexing bit is the real insight here.
Tiffany Spark
Web designer in London. Clean code, good design, strong coffee.
the single-threaded event loop explanation finally made Redis click for me. I use it for session caching on client sites and always just trusted it was fast without really understanding why. the I/O multiplexing bit is the real insight here.