Fair enough. 30k/sec sounds pretty nice. Sadly, I imagine that's a local instance. We need a solution that can handle orders of magnitude more than that though. Which, from my understanding, means multiple instances. And I have no experience with scaling Redis. I'd kill for a good turn-key solution.
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I have no personal experience using redis-cloud, but their website[1] does give a good overview of their features. Currently, redis has no native clustering/sharding support AFAIK, but cloud based services like redis-cloud seem to be offering exactly that, in a very transparent way. It also seems to be taking care of monitoring, backups etc.
I'd love to help you. We (RedisGreen) run extremely high-performance, dedicated Redis installations and work directly with customers to help tune their app and their installation for the best possible service.
Getting Redis up and running is easy, as has been mentioned in this thread. But the devil is in the details. Third-party vendors distinguish themselves in terms of active monitoring, quality/knowledge of support, and closed-source features (e.g. one company offers what they call "multicore Redis").
I've been running large-scale production instances of Redis since 2009, and our other team members are similarly qualified.
I'd love to help you out and give you honest recommendations on system scaling. bpo at stovepipestudios.com
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