Prerequisites You should read Part 1: Redis in Production — Persistence, Replication, and HA first, or already understand RDB vs AOF, Redis Sentinel, and Redis Cluster mode. Basic AWS familiarity (VPCs, security groups, EC2 instance families) is expected. You don’t need prior hands-on experience with MemoryDB or ElastiCache Serverless. The Problem: “Just Use ElastiCache” Is… Read More »
TL;DR: Redis is simple to start but tricky to run correctly at scale. This guide covers the production deployment decisions that matter: RDB vs AOF vs hybrid persistence, Sentinel vs Cluster topologies, memory eviction policies that won’t kill your app, and the self-hosted vs ElastiCache trade-off. Written for platform engineers who need Redis to stay… Read More »
TL;DR: Most production “AI agents” are actually deterministic workflows — and that’s fine, but the architecture decision you make right now determines whether your system costs $0.10 or $50 per request, whether it completes in 3 seconds or 3 minutes, and whether you can debug it when it fails at 2am. This post maps Anthropic’s… Read More »