Category Archives: redis

Looking forward to Redis 2.6

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

In reading Short term Redis plans, I’m happy to see the “More introspection” section. For a long time some in the Redis community have asked for the ability to publish key names to a channel when they expire. And, while … Continue reading →

Posted in programming, redis, tech | 1 Comment

NoSQL is What?

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I’m not even sure where to start, so I guess I’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in mongodb, mysql, nosql, programming, redis | 70 Comments

Redis Sharding at Craigslist

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

After reading Salvatore’s Redis Presharding, I thought I’d write up the sharding technique we use at Craigslist to take advantage of multiple cores, multiple hosts, and allow for painless growth (up to a point). Nodes The primary building block of … Continue reading →

Posted in craigslist, nosql, programming, redis | 30 Comments

Webdis is Full of Awesome

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

I’ve long wanted a lightweight system for gathering and graphing simple performance metrics without a lot of centralized processing. I could use something like StatsD from the Etsy folks but got inspired by reading about Redis at Disqus the other … Continue reading →

Posted in craigslist, programming, redis, tech | 3 Comments

Redis 2.2 replication consistency with maxmemory and LRU

Posted on January 27, 2011 by

We’ve been running a version of Redis 2.2 RC at Craigslist for a few months now and it has been flawless. It has rapidly become the backbone of one of our internal systems. When I upgraded from the 2.0 series … Continue reading →

Posted in nosql, programming, redis, tech | 4 Comments