Advanced Redis Architecture Patterns for High-Throughput Applications
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Redis is far more than a simple cache — in production, it handles sliding window rate limiting with Sorted Sets, distributed locking with Lua-backed safe release, lightweight message brokering via Streams, and WebSocket scaling through Sharded Pub/Sub. It even serves as a semantic cache for LLM pipelines using vector search, cutting GPU costs significantly.
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