Intro to Redis Cluster Sharding – Advantages, Limitations, Deploying & Client Connections

Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans. In this post, we’re going to introduce you to the advanced Redis Cluster sharding opportunities, discuss its advantages and limitations, when you should deploy, and how to connect to your Redis Cluster.

Sharding with Redis Cluster

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Is Node.js Becoming a Part of the Stack? SimpleGeo Says Yes.

This is an interview with Wade Simmons, an Infrastructure Engineer at SimpleGeo, a service making it easy for developers to create location-aware applications, on their increasing use of Node.js as a backend service component, replacing code that would have at one time been written in Java, Python or Ruby. Node.js is finding it's way into many stacks these days and I was curious why that might be. My experience writing several messaging systems is that programmers don't like the async model and it's a big surprise that a pure async programming model like Node.js, especially one that uses server-side Javascript, would be taking off. Wade was generous enough to help explain their reasoning behind using Node.js at SimpleGeo. I'd really like to thank Wade for taking the time for this interview. He did a really great job and provided a lot of insight on how the modern web stack is evolving in the crucible of real-life experience.  

And here begins the interview with Wade Simmons:

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