Skip to Content
Mastering Redis
book

Mastering Redis

by Jeremy Nelson
May 2016
Beginner to intermediate
366 pages
8h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Mastering Redis

Clustering Redis with Twemproxy

Twemproxy is an open source project released by Twitter for creating a caching proxy between a client and backend made up of either Memecache or Redis instances. Twemproxy separates the client calls, in our case any suitable Redis client, from the datastore backend through the use of an intermediary middleware. This middleware then implements a sharding strategy based on your preferences that are set in a configuration YAML file. Twemproxy supports twelve different hash functions including md5, crc16, two versions of crc32, four variants of the Fowler-Noll-Vo (FNV), among others with the default being a fnv1a_64 hash functions.

With Twemproxy being a C program such as Redis, the steps to get Twemproxy running require ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Learning Redis

Learning Redis

Vinoo Das
Redis Essentials

Redis Essentials

Maxwell Dayvson da Silva
Redis Cookbook

Redis Cookbook

Tiago Macedo, Fred Oliveira
Redis in Action

Redis in Action

Josiah Carlson

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781783988181