How Redis efficiently snapshots gigabytes of memory to disk (forking)

I discuss the concept of process forking, copy on write (COW) aka shadowing, and how Redis the in-memory database take advantage of that for asynchronous snapshotting,    https://redis.io/topics/persistence

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Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr 🧑‍🏫 Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses