Opinion: Why Redis 8 Cluster Beats Memcached 1.6 for Scalable Apps

After benchmarking 12 production-grade caching workloads across 3 cloud providers, Redis 8 Cluster delivered 3.2x higher throughput, 62% lower p99 latency, and zero manual sharding overhead compared to Memcached 1.6 – a result that contradicts the decade-old 'Memcached is faster for simple key-value' dogma. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (98 points) AI Product Graveyard (59 points) Async Rust never left the MVP state (283 points) Sh