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How would you design a read scaling strategy using multiple Redis replicas for an application with a very read heavy workload?

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You would add multiple replicas and distribute read traffic across them using a client side or proxy based load balancing approach, carefully monitor each replica's lag to ensure read consistency remains acceptable for your application's needs, and consider whether certain reads that absolutely require the most current data should still go directly to the primary rather than a potentially slightly lagging replica.

-- Distribute reads across multiple replicas
-- while directing all writes to the primary
const readClient = getRandomReplica();
const writeClient = getPrimary();

Real-world example A content platform with a heavily read dominated workload adds three replicas and distributes read traffic across them, dramatically increasing their overall read capacity while keeping all writes correctly routed to the single primary server.

Common follow-ups: How do you handle a scenario where a specific read absolutely cannot tolerate any replication lag?;What load balancing strategies work well for distributing reads across multiple replicas?

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