Offload per-request bookkeeping to a fast in-memory store
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That way you're not hitting your main database for just a little nothing sort of insignificant traffic You're keeping it reserved for the heavy hitter traffic
Episode 208: The Booby Trap (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:18:27 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
On a high-traffic production server, Dave would move per-request bookkeeping, like validating auth tokens, onto an in-memory database such as Redis. That keeps the main database free for the heavy-hitter traffic.