Uniting Go, Redis Cluster Mode, Postgres, and Docker into Something Meh
Recently I was tasked with implementing Redis with Cluster Mode enabled for my company’s production application. One of the nice things about working in the modern software age is that cloud providers abstract a lot of complexity away from you. In our case, we are implementing AWS’ ElastiCache, which supports Redis Cluster Mode natively. However, it’s not so easy to replicate locally. When I set about doing this, what I thought would be a fairly standard Google search. I figured there’d be an immediately available docker-compose file supporting both Postgres and Redis Cluster Mode, but I wasn’t able to find it. As a result, my goals with this post is to create a working proof of concept that utilizes the tools I work with daily and can hopefully be of use to other developers. ...