Gas app was able to cut Redis Engine CPU utilization by 80%

Today we cut our Redis Engine CPU Utilization by 80% and survived to live (and grow) another day!

We were CPU constrained & maxed out scaling limits for our ElastiCache cluster. We had 2 hours to reduce utilization before our next traffic surge or we were toast.

What did we do? pic.twitter.com/e4PPn59PqQ

— Dave Schatz (@daveschatz) October 21, 2022