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Dragonfly - a multithreaded Redis competitor

Dragonfly is a multithreaded ground-up reimplementation of the Redis wire protocol, described as being designed to scale vertically where Redis can't. The interesting thing is that Dragonfly is selling itself as "in-memory infrastructure for caching, feature stores, and job queues," which is the IMDG shape from the cache side of the river and a quiet admission that the cache framing was always too narrow.