Antirez weblog Redis cluster, no longer vaporware. antirez 2 hours ago. The first commit I can find in my git history about Redis Cluster is dated March 29 2011, but it is a “copy and commit” merge: the history of the cluster branch was destroyed since it was a total mess of work-in-progress commits, just to shape the initial idea of API and interactions with the rest of the system. Basically it is a roughly 4 years old project. This is about two thirds the whole history of the Redis project. Yet, it is only today, that I’m releasing a Release Candidate, the first one, of Redis 3.0.0, which is the first version with Cluster support. An erratic run — To understand why it took so long is straightforward: I started the cluster project with a lot of rush, in a moment where it looked like Redis was going to be totally useless without an automatic way to scale. It was not the right m...