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Redis 4.x Cookbook
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Redis 4.x Cookbook

by Pengcheng Huang, Zuofei Wang
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Twemproxy

Twemproxy, also known as the nutcracker, is a fast and lightweight Redis proxy developed by Twitter. The purpose of this project is to provide a proxy and data sharding solution for Redis and to reduce the number of client connections to the backend Redis Servers.

As a proxy, Twemproxy supports both Redis and Memcached protocols. You could set up multiple Redis servers behind Twemproxy. Clients only talk to the proxy and do not need to know the details of backend Redis instances.

The following diagram shows the basic architecture of how Twemproxy works in the environment of multiple Redis instances:

Twemproxy is able to shard data ...

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