How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?
I'd like to see the client code, see how it manages backpressure.<p>(I'm probably being thick; the benchmark code is probably linked and I'm just not seeing it.)<p>I recently maintained some nodejs & expressjs stuff. Neither the Redis clients (or the original developers of our stuff) have any concept of backpressure (throttling). In our case, HTTP request received would cause a Redis request. For whatever reason, expressjs (or nodejs) event loop thingie processes Request preempt other stuff. So Redis responses would pile up in Redis itself, causing Redis to ABEND (out of memory).<p>Trying to explain backpressure, queueing, throttling to a bunch of junior devs who <i>LOVE LOVE LOVE</i> nodejs... Definitely was not my favorite gig.<p>--<p>PS- I started using Redis a few gigs ago. I really wanted to hate it. I'm primarily a Java dev and was esthetically offended by the NoSQL fad. But turns out Redis is awesome. And antirez is now a personal hero. I truly wish I was more like him.