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The question I’d have is “why use a custom cache at all”, this sounds like a problem that has a whole pile of battle-tested off-the-shelf solutions.
by fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
The question I’d have is “why use a custom cache at all”, this sounds like a problem that has a whole pile of battle-tested off-the-shelf solutions.
- jhgg 6y agoThe original implementation of this "service" was in Redis using lua scripts. We hit the performance ceiling of redis, and rather than deciding to go with redis-cluster, and dealing with the headache of managing persistent redis, we went this way, so we could consolidate data storage to scylladb/cassandra (it was cassandra at the time of rewrite, scylla now since we've migrated our data stores over).
- muzaffarpur 6y agoany reason to not consider Aerospike for Cache?
- jhgg 6y agoWe don't have any operational experience with Aerospike. We have a bunch of operational experience with C*/ScyllaDB.