Blog - Ending Support for Redis Caching Backplane

Published: Aug 22, 2023

If your Rock instance does not use Redis, then you can skip this article.

As stated before, maintaining old code is a costly endeavor. So, starting with Rock v17, we're removing support for the original Redis backplane.

Originally, Redis was used by some very large churches to maintain a cache of data across multiple Rock instances. However, with the introduction of the Rock Web Farm and a message bus in v12, Rock's internal cache was able to be synchronized across all the nodes in a Rock server farm.

If you would like more information about Rock's Web Farm feature, see our Hyper Scaling Rock guide.