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by Meai 5330 days ago
Why do you think Redis is the best choice here? Did you benchmark other approaches and databases? What are the disadvantages of using Redis? How specifically does Redis help you make the app realtime? You said you scaled to 10s of thousands of users on a single server. What specs did that server have and what workload did you put it under? Did you write to disk during those tests?