Comment on Reddit explains their architecture, scaling and recent downtimeparentComments−antirez16yI may be a bit biased, but if what they want is a fast persistent cache Redis should really be a good fit.−zepolen16yDoes Redis block when writing to disk?−antirez16yNo writes are asynchronous.
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I may be a bit biased, but if what they want is a fast persistent cache Redis should really be a good fit.
Does Redis block when writing to disk?
No writes are asynchronous.