When to Use Redis vs Memcached in 2026
A 64 GB cache node holding 41 GB of live data should not be evicting anything. Yet stats on a memcached instance in exactly that state can report evictions climbing by 12,000 per second while…
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A 64 GB cache node holding 41 GB of live data should not be evicting anything. Yet stats on a memcached instance in exactly that state can report evictions climbing by 12,000 per second while…
Make a Laravel 12 app stateless with Redis, fix a slow query with EXPLAIN, stop cache stampedes, and watch a Kubernetes HPA scale it on kind.
Redis 8 vs Memcached 1.6 measured with memtier benchmark in Docker: GET/SET throughput, p50/p99 latency, io-threads, and memory per key at four value sizes.
Measure Postgres composite, covering and partial indexes with EXPLAIN ANALYZE in Docker, then test Redis cache-aside, with a rule for database indexing vs caching.
Learn how to scale your Laravel application to 100M requests per day using Redis as a caching layer. Discover the problems we faced, the solutions we tried, and the lessons we learned.