[bbq]

This is cool and, I believe, a good strategy for many things.

> If Redis isn’t available, for whatever reason, we could rebuild the gaps from the canonical data in Mongo. We’ve never had to do this.

I'm not sure this is so straight-forward.

So, this is a guest post by Sqoot hosted by togo.io, who owns the redistogo.com. Can anyone explain redistogo.com's pricing? I understand the value in not running your own service dependencies, but the redistogo.com prices seem really high to me. I was under the impression redis is fairly easy to manage. What kinds of operational tasks does redistogo.com perform for a redis instance that would warrant such high prices?

[avand]

I pinged the guys over at RedisToGo to get you some more clarity on the pricing.

Speaking for ourselves, we've historically preferred to have someone else manage our infrastructure. Setting up Redis is fairly trivial, I agree. However, setting up a secure machine out on the internet and making sure it's always there is less trivial. Rather than juggle an ops/engineer role, we just double down on engineering. I'm sure at some point this may need to change. Hopefully, when that day comes we can afford a sysadmin!