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Continuation Of Redis Throughput and Management

As promised in our previous blog on Redis Performance tunning and Best practices, we have explored more best practices and optimizations in Redis as a cache and database management system. This blog will share some new findings and optimizations we learned in our previous blog’s delta period.

We know that Redis is a high-speed and flexible data storage that can fulfill different cache and database requirements. But if a system is not configured and tested correctly, even a fast and reliable one can quickly become limited. Here we will talk about the different needs of Redis as a system and how we can optimize it further to fully use it.

So while consulting and collaborating with different Redis architects from Redis Labs, I learned different ways of designing a performance-grade, highly available, and secure Redis architecture. Based on my learning, I would like to categorize it into these dimensions:-

Right-sizing and deployment of Redis setup.
Proxy and connection pooling.
Use the correct data type for storing keys.
Sharding and replication strategy.

Introduction to Siege

Several factors play an important role in order to make a business succeed. One of them is its online presence in today’s world. In simple words, online presence means an informative and attractive web page. Web page/server are the mirror reflection of how successful a business is. It is crucial to have a stable web server as the performance of an application or a web server will define the user experience which will have a direct impact on business as well.

Now you must be thinking if a web page is so important, so it should be able to function efficiently when in use. The stability of a website is a matter of concern in case of an extreme situation which highlights the importance of testing the web server. By testing, we mean load testing and performance testing which will give stress to the website and tells its performance under stress.

Now you must be thinking testing will require a huge cost and effort for servers which sometimes makes us skip the testing phase. Let me help you in solving this doubt by introducing you to “Siege” which will make testing a simple and achievable task.

Redis Best Practices and Performance Tuning for High-Speed Systems

In modern high traffic systems, Redis is one of the fastest in-memory data stores, but without proper tuning, even Redis can start showing performance bottlenecks.

The solution? Performance tuning and configuration optimization.

This guide covers the most important Redis performance tuning practices every DevOps engineer, SRE, or backend developer must follow.

One of the thing that I love about my organization is that you don’t have to do the same repetitive work, you will always get the chance to explore some new technologies. The same chance came across to me a few days back when one of our clients was facing issue with Redis.
They were using the Redis Cluster with Sentinel for which they were facing issue regarding performance, whenever the connection request was high the Redis Cluster was not able to bear the load.
Since they were using a decent configuration of the server in terms of CPU and Memory but the result was the same. So now what????
The Answer was to tune the performance. Continue reading “Redis Best Practices and Performance Tuning for High-Speed Systems”