How to achieve a 50% reduction in Redis memory usage

Yes, you read that right. To give you some context, some time ago, our (my org’s) Redis usage was un-tracked – meaning we didn’t know why our Redis memory was being occupied as much as it was. Our 2.5GB of Redis ElastiCache was almost close to being full, and if it somehow reached its limit, our system would start to fail. Though there were fallbacks in place, Redis could turn out to be a bottle-neck. ...

May 10, 2020 · 11 min