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How We Optimized Dragonfly to Get 30x Throughput with BullMQ
Blog post from Dragonfly
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Date Published
Author
Shahar Mike
Word Count
3,199
Language
English
Hacker News Points
6
Summary
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.