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TTL is also known as Time to live. It is used to take advantage of both the lazy load strategy as well as write through strategy. These two strategies were…

Like lazy loading, write through is another caching strategy but unlike lazy loading, it does not wait for a hit or miss. It is a straight forward strategy in which…

There are different ways to populate the cache and keep maintaining the cache. These different ways are known as caching strategies. A gaming site maintaining the leaderboard data needs a…

To access the nodes in a cluster we use the Endpoint associated with node. We have already seen how to check for the endpoints. We will see the cluster how…

Amazon ElastiCache supports the Redis and Memcached cache engines. Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure implementing a distributed, in-memory key-value database. Memcached is also a distributed memory caching system.…

To monitor the usage and health of clusters, ElastiCache provides metrics which can be accessed through CloudWatch. These metrics can be host-level metrics. CPU utilization is an example of host-level…

AWS ElastiCache clusters running Redis can be used to create back up which then can be used to restore a cluster or seed a new cluster. The backup is made…

To control the runtime behaviour of the Redis cluster nodes we use many parameters which are in-built in-to the cluster. As the engine version of the cluster changes, more additional…

Parameter Groups are a collection of parameters which control the behaviour of the ElastiCache cluster. But many times, we need our own list of parameters to be grouped together for…

To control the runtime behaviour of the Redis cluster nodes we use many parameters , we see the exact steps to list the parameters that are available in different versions…