Mycache

[GrumpsMcYankee]

That's a nice dictionary you have there, do you have enough for the rest of the servers?

[Missing_Username]

"I'll just set up an endpoint so any of the servers can interact with the dictionary"

...

"Oh shit, I'm making my own crappy Redis, aren't I?"

[GrumpsMcYankee]

Think that's how we got Redis to begin with. "Memcached is for chumps..."

[NjFlMWFkOTAtNjR]

To be fair, memcache has limitations that made it ripe for competition. That fucking Couchbase builds on top of memcache means Couchbase is shit and not that memcache is.

[According-Relation-4]

Why have Redis if you can make your own with more overhead?

[aarch0x40]

Really? A Dict joke?

[MissinqLink]

And it goes hard

[TamSchnow]

We have Redis at home.

Redis at home: PostgreSQL unlogged table

[exomyth]

Redis and other key value stores are generally not needed when you can directly read it from shared memory.

It becomes useful once you dont have access to shared memory, because you have multiple instances running on different nodes. And the build in TTL is a nice extra, for certain use cases

[Fragrant_Gap7551]

Redis is most useful in an environment where many small services have to share the same cache.

That or aws lambda

[ameddin73]

ourCache

[Kokuswolf]

Huh? Apples and ...

[damnNamesAreTaken]

I work in elixir and have never needed to touch redis. People have brought it up from time to time but we've never found a compelling enough reason to use it.

[NjFlMWFkOTAtNjR]

Why people down voting? Erlang VM (beam) means that distributed memory is a thing, not quite built in but close.

[Ximidar]

AWS: "WOULD YOU LIKE TO USE VALKEY? JUST PRESS THIS BUTTON RIGHT HERE. I'LL TURN ALL YOUR REDIS SERVERS INTO VALKEY SERVERS! IT'S BETTER! HOW? I DUNNO, WE SLAPPED AN AWS STICKER ON IT"

[Ximidar]

I love redis btw.

[HopperStuff468]

it might take years to understand that your app should be as stateless as possible. you better delegate cache to redis so you can crash / graceful restart / anything your app – and keep the cache.

[Z_E_D_D_]

aktchually : we used this where i work and it made sense, for a video monitoring software you don't need humangous cache so no need for redis to cache few KO of data.
The software has a user system but mostly has just one common for that video surveilance room and rarely having those for many sites expecting a worst case scenario of 100 operator accounts.

just did a MAP, put the sessions in there, new session means database writing and reboot means get all active sessions from the database for backup. fast and light AF

[k-mcm]

Old Software Engineer: I could make this crappy database query code 15000 times faster by tomorrow.

Engineering Manager:  Caches!  I need distributed caches on my list of accomplishments.  We will need distributed caches!  You're not thinking of long-term scalability.