How do I implement best practices for Redis clients and ElastiCache for Redis self-designed clusters?

Short description

Redis supports a wide variety of client libraries. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis also supports the General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE) for Redis. For more information, see glide-for-redis on the GitHub website. GLIDE is an AWS sponsored, open-source Redis client that works with any Redis distribution and adheres to the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP) specification. This includes open-source Redis, ElastiCache for Redis, and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis. You can use any client library that's supported by Redis.

Resolution

For consistency in development and operations, GLIDE uses a core driver framework that's written in Rust with extensions for each supported programming language. Make sure that you check the library documentation and choose a library type based on the programming language and features offered by the library. It's a best practice to check the library documentation before you choose a client library. For more information, see Best practices: Redis clients and Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.