Nutcracker
Nutcracker (also known as twemproxy ) is a lightweight proxy for memcached and Redis . It was primarily built to reduce the connection count between web servers and backend hosts.
Service
- Provisioned by Puppet ( nutcracker module , and mediawiki::nutcracker ).
- Monitored by Icinga.
- Logs are not stored. (?)
Usage
Installed on Application servers , Changeprop pods, Thumbor pods and API Gateway pods.