Redis Sharding at CraigslistAfter reading Salvatore’s Redis Presharding, I thought I’d write up the sharding technique we use at Craigslist to take advantage of multiple cores, multiple hosts, and allow for painless growth (up to a point). Nodes The primary building block of our Redis infrastructure is a node, which is simply a host:port pair that points to a single redis-server instance. Each node is given a symbolic node n
