--- title: There's more than one way to scale Redis/Valkey to 1M... description: Exploring various strategies to scale Redis or Valkyrie to handle 1 million requests per second, including vertical scaling, horizontal scaling, pipelining,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/there-s-more-than-one-way-to-scale-redis-valkey-to-1m-op-s--ghfnqcgcc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: There's more than one way to scale Redis/Valkey to 1M op/s... | daily.dev og:description: Exploring various strategies to scale Redis or Valkyrie to handle 1 million requests per second, including vertical scaling, horizontal scaling, pipelining,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/there-s-more-than-one-way-to-scale-redis-valkey-to-1m-op-s--ghfnqcgcc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GhFnQcgcc.png og:image:alt: There's more than one way to scale Redis/Valkey to 1M op/s... og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # There's more than one way to scale Redis/Valkey to 1M op/s... **[Dreams of Code](https://daily.dev/sources/dreamsofcode)** · 28 min read · 25 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Exploring various strategies to scale Redis or Valkyrie to handle 1 million requests per second, including vertical scaling, horizontal scaling, pipelining, read replication, and using Redis cluster. 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