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How We Optimized Dragonfly to Get 30x Throughput with BullMQ

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses the optimization of Dragonfly for BullMQ, a popular Node.js library for background jobs using Redis as a backend. Through various enhancements, they achieved a staggering 30x increase in throughput. Key optimizations included hashtag locking, reducing the number of hops for commands and scripts, connection migration, and shard round-robin key placement. These improvements not only benefit BullMQ but also have potential to enhance performance for other Redis-based frameworks.

Company
Dragonfly

Date published
Nov. 21, 2023

Author(s)
Shahar Mike

Word count
3199

Hacker News points
6

Language
English


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