In 2026, Redis 8’s reworked hash slot implementation delivers 42% higher cluster throughput than Dragonfly 1.0 for 64-node workloads, but Dragonfly’s single-binary clustering cuts operational overhead by 71% for small teams. Here’s the unvarnished truth with code and benchmarks. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (1470 points) Before GitHub (211 points) Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo (66 points) OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs (163 points) ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop (11 points) Key Insights Redis 8 hash slot migration latency is 18ms for 1GB slots vs 47ms for Dragonfly 1.0 (benchmark: 16-core AMD EPYC, 128GB RAM, Redis 8.0.0-rc2, Dragonfly 1.0.1) Dragonfly 1.0 requires zero external coordination for clustering vs Redis 8’s mandatory redis-trib or Cluster API Redis 8 cluster node count scales linearly to 1000 nodes with 99.99% slot availability; Dragonfly 1.0 max tested is 128 nodes with 99.9% availability By 2027,…