You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

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Summary

Our team has been building data-driven apps for 20+ years. Tired of fighting database performance, scalability, and cost, we realized that it's possible to bypass most of the issues with disk-based databases if we could effectively cache all our reads, using the database mainly as a data store. This is not a new idea. Some of the largest companies in the world synchronize their database directly with the cache so that they can seamlessly access their data without worrying about optimizing SQL queries or scaling up their disk-based databases. Now, for the first time in history, we have made it possible for anybody to implement this without spending several million dollars and years in R&D costs. redfly.ai is the world's first schema-agnostic caching system. No other company has done or will do this. Why build a data-agnostic system when you could more easily (still non-trivial) make something that works solely with your database? redfly.ai lets you synchronize your database with Redis transparently and generate a data access layer that integrates data access code with caching. This open-source repo is intended to make it easy for developers to understand and try out our system. Goals Provide source code that: RedflyPerformanceTest Project: Lets you easily verify that our system performs better than conventional techniques for data access at scale (Done ✔️). RedflyDatabaseSyncProxy Project: Provides a way for anybody to test our Redis synchronization service on demand Get the database ready for synchronization by adding the functionality to prep it (Done ✔️) Support for synchronizing databases which are hosted online (Done ✔️) SQL Server Support (Available since day 1 ✔️) Postgres Support (Done ✔️, Stabilized ✔️, long term testing ongoing ⌚) MongoDB Support (Internal Testing ongoing ⌚, OSS Hosting support TBD ⏳, OSS release TBD ⏳, Dog food Mongo Cache for Infra TBD ⏳) Provide a way for anybody to generate their data access backend services on our cloud on-demand (TBD ...

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