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18 postsAuthenticated RCE Exploits Hit Redis via Stream, TDigest, TopK Bugs
Authenticated RCE chain hits Redis 6.2.22 through 8.8.1 via stream NACK double-free, TDigest and TopK module bugs, bypassing two prior CVE patches.
MCP Sessions Moved Into the Payload: Sticky, Redis, Continuations Compared
MCP dropped server sessions for MRTR; a Rust rmcp v3 benchmark measures sticky, Redis, and sealed-continuation state strategies.
Idempotency Fundamentals: Engineering API Guarantees at Scale
A practical breakdown of idempotency in distributed systems: request flow, failure boundaries, key state machines, and storage trade-offs.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comnibble: Diagnose and Fix Redis Memory Waste, No Install Required
nibble diagnoses and fixes Redis memory waste with zero install, claiming an 8.6x memory reduction backed by transparent, documented benchmarks.
Rate Limiting at Scale: Choosing the Right Throttling Algorithm
Why in-memory rate limiting silently breaks under horizontal scaling, and how token bucket, sliding window and fixed window algorithms trade off in production.
Cache invalidation: solving stale data and stampede problems
An engineering look at TTL, event-based invalidation, versioning and single-flight patterns, and how cache stampede can take down your origin in production.
Loopers: Atomic Pre-Call Budget Checks for LLMs Using Redis Lua
Loopers acts as a firewall to prevent budget overruns for LLMs. Open-source with fast updates.
redissnoop: A Zero-Overhead Redis Traffic Profiler via eBPF
redissnoop uses eBPF to watch Redis commands at the kernel level, no MONITOR or proxy needed, reading TLS traffic before encryption while adding zero load to the server.
Chasing True Zero-Downtime Redis Sentinel Failover on Kubernetes
An engineer's attempt to achieve near zero-downtime Redis Sentinel failover on EKS: custom preStop hooks, ioredis buffering risks, and the debate over HA at scale.
The Hidden Cost of Event-Driven Design in Real-Time Java Systems
A production account of how Kafka-based event-driven design clashed with real-time requirements in a Java contact center platform, and why the team moved to Redis.