Database Insights

Eliminate stale cache reads and thundering-herd stampedes by streaming MySQL binlog changes to Valkey via Debezium CDC. Full Java setup with embedded engine and XFetch.

Compare Redis RDB snapshots and AOF logging — durability trade-offs, performance impact, and recovery scenarios

Configure Redis Cluster for horizontal scaling — hash slots, replication, failover, and client-side routing

Redis Sentinel and Redis Cluster both provide HA, but teams regularly choose the wrong one. Sentinel is simpler and covers 95% of use cases; Cluster is required for horizontal scale. Here's when to choose each.

Compare Redis persistence modes: RDB snapshots for fast restarts, AOF for sub-second durability, and the combined RDB+AOF approach. Includes data loss and I/O tradeoff matrix.

Understand why MySQL removed the query cache in 8.0 and what to use instead: application-level Redis caching, ProxySQL query cache, and pre-computed summary tables.

Redis Streams and Kafka both handle millions of events per second, but they solve different problems. Compare latency, retention, delivery guarantees, and operational overhead to choose the right architecture.

Use Redis Streams for event sourcing and message queues. Covers XADD, XREADGROUP, consumer groups, XAUTOCLAIM for stale messages, and Python producer/consumer examples.

Deploy and operate a Redis Cluster with automatic sharding and HA. Covers 6-node setup, health checks, adding master nodes, resharding, and manual failover.

Redis 8 and Valkey 8 both launched in 2025 with competing performance claims. They differ on licensing, governance, and roadmap. Here is how to choose for production.

Redis hit maxmemory and evicted your session keys because the application stored 8KB JSON blobs instead of 200-byte hashes. Learn to audit memory usage, use compact encodings, and configure the right eviction policy.

Understand the Redis fork landscape after licensing changes. Compare Redis and Valkey features, licensing implications, migration paths, and community support.