How Redis efficiently snapshots gigabytes of memory to disk (forking)

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Episode | Podcast

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:54:14 GMT

<p>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, &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><br /></p> <p>https://redis.io/topics/persistence</p>