Mastering Redis

Redis Cluster background

The beginning of what eventually became the Redis cluster started with an announcement by Salvatore Sanfilippo in 2011 to the Redis e-mail list and a subsequent blog post, refer bullet point number 4 from Appendix, Sources, Chapter 6: Scaling with Redis Cluster and Sentinel. Earlier discussions about Redis clustering support started in 2010 with the first mention of the term redis-cluster in an e-mail message to the Redis-db listserv, refer bullet point number 5 in Appendix, Sources, Chapter 6: Scaling with Redis Cluster and Sentine. Development and testing of the Redis cluster continued from 2011 through 2015. In an October 2014 follow-up blog posting, Sanfilippo relates how over the 4+ years since his first commit in ...