When your Redis instance hits 50,000 simultaneous connections, every microsecond of latency and every megabyte of RAM counts. In our 14-day benchmark campaign across 3 cloud regions, Redis 8.0.0 and KeyDB 7.2.1 showed a 42% gap in throughput under sustained load, but the winner depends entirely on your workload's read/write ratio and multi-threaded requirements. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (213 points) Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs (103 points) I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (71 points) Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (167 points) Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (298 points) Key Insights Redis 8 achieves 1.82M ops/sec under 50k connections for read-heavy workloads, 28% higher than KeyDB 7.2 KeyDB 7.2 reduces p99 latency by 34% for write-heavy multi-threaded workloads vs Redis 8 single-threaded default KeyDB 7.2 uses 19% less RAM per 10k connections…