Recently, we had an interesting issue where we ran into some performance issues in our Redis clusters. After a lot of time spent debugging and testing we were able to reduce Redis’s memory use in some of our clusters by up to 25% with changes to key expiration. Internally Twitter runs multiple cache services. One of them is backed by Redis. Our Redis clusters store data for some Twitter’s most imp
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