Simon Willison’s Weblog

TwitterAlikeExample—redis. Excellent example of how you design a moderately complex system against a scalable key-value store (in this case redis). Most “how to build Twitter” code examples fail to address the hard problem of scaling user inboxes, but this one tackles it head on.

# 21st May 2009, 11:14 pm / keyvaluepairs, redis, scaling, twitter

redis (via) An in-memory scalable key/value store but with an important difference: this one lets you perform list and set operations against keys, opening up a whole new set of possibilities for application development. It’s very young but already supports persistence to disk and master-slave replication.

# 15th March 2009, 1:32 pm / keyvaluepairs, masterslave, redis, replication, salvatore-sanfilippo, scaling