How Redis efficiently snapshots gigabytes of memory to disk (forking)
Aug 21, 2021•5 min
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Episode description
I discuss the concept of process forking, copy on write (COW) aka shadowing, and how Redis the in-memory database take advantage of that for asynchronous snapshotting,
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