Arun Sirpal feeds the mogwai after midnight:
I mentioned before that you could use the idea of data persistency to rebuild your data from total failure. There are two types. RDB and AOF.
RDB – persists a snapshot of your cache in a binary format. The snapshot is saved in an Azure Storage account. AOF – saves every write operation to a log. The log is saved at least once per second into an Azure Storage account.
I’m a big proponent of using Redis as a caching service. I’m not a big proponent of using Redis as a persisted database, mostly because I’ve had a lot of bad experiences with persistent Redis…