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jankeir
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Redis is something like memcached which you might know, but slightly more powerfull. It is ideal for sharing sessions, I guess you would need sharing sessions for supporting the apsv protocol (otherwise the sticky sessions wouldn't be needed). If support for it were added it would indeed allow failover to other servers, it's basically an in-memory database (with the option to persist to disk but we don't need that) that allows to share relatively small amounts of data (like session info) across processes/hosts with a very low performance penalty (compared to traditional databases that are a lot slower, in exchange for much more features that are not needed for the session info.) For clarity: as far as I know redis is not currently supported by progress. It is also one of a number of similar solutions (but certainly a safe choice.)
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