nutcracker ☆
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Description:
Proxy for memcached and redis
Type: Formula  |  Latest Version: 0.5.0@0  |  Tracked Since: Oct 15, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Networking
Tags: cache redis memcached proxy networking
Install: brew install nutcracker
About:
Nutcracker, also known as twemproxy, is a fast, lightweight proxy for memcached and Redis protocols. It was built and open-sourced by Twitter to reduce connection count and memory usage on backend cache servers. It provides sharding and high availability by pooling connections and routing requests to multiple cache nodes.
Key Features:
  • Reduces connection count on backend cache servers
  • Provides automatic sharding and pooling for memcached/Redis
  • Adds high availability by handling node failures transparently
  • Lightweight and fast with low overhead
Use Cases:
  • Scaling cache infrastructure by reducing direct client connections
  • Sharding data across multiple memcached or Redis instances
Alternatives:
  • envoy – Envoy is a general-purpose L7 proxy with Redis support, offering more features but higher complexity
  • redis-sentinel – Redis Sentinel provides HA but not connection pooling or sharding
Version History
Detected Version Rev Change Commit
Oct 15, 2025 5:03pm 1 VERSION_BUMP 35e26326
Sep 16, 2025 4:14pm 1 VERSION_BUMP 542dc200
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