Redis Cluster - Benefits of Sharding and How It Works

Content

The Problem
Redis Cluster: Enter

Key Distribution
Hash Tags: Getting back into control of your sharding strategy
Redirection
Distributing Reads

Conclusion

Redis is by far one of the most frequently used data stores. It's fascinating how much our our software-developer-minds go to Redis when we are faced with a data storage problem that requires some level of scale. Even if this might make us feel guilty, I have a somewhat confident assumption that this's the case...