CChris MowforthOct 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 stru1blog.hardpoint.dev
CChris MowforthSep 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 offeblog.hardpoint.dev
CChris MowforthSep 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 an1blog.hardpoint.dev
