Redis Cluster background

The beginning of what eventually became the Redis cluster started with an announcement by Salvatore Sanfilippo in 2011 to the Redis e-mail list and a subsequent blog post, refer bullet point number 4 from Appendix, Sources, Chapter 6: Scaling with Redis Cluster and Sentinel. Earlier discussions about Redis clustering support started in 2010 with the first mention of the term redis-cluster in an e-mail message to the Redis-db listserv, refer bullet point number 5 in Appendix, Sources, Chapter 6: Scaling with Redis Cluster and Sentine. Development and testing of the Redis cluster continued from 2011 through 2015. In an October 2014 follow-up blog posting, Sanfilippo relates how over the 4+ years since his first commit in March 2011 related to Redis Cluster, he had to redesign, implement, and test the functionality of Redis Cluster on numerous occasions as he became more familiar with the challenges surrounding distributed computing at scale. During those years of development...