Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.

The 1.0 release of valkey-swift was recently announced on the Valkey blog. We’ve invited one of the authors to be this month’s guest contributor:

Hi, I’m Adam Fowler, an open source developer working in the Swift on server ecosystem. I am excited to announce…

Redis Cluster is Redis's native sharding mode. A cluster of Redis nodes partitions the keyspace into 16,384 hash slots; each node owns a contiguous range of slots; clients learn which node owns which slot and route commands directly. Redis Cluster combines sharding with replication for horizontal scale and availability.

Key concepts

• Hash slots. Each key is hashed (CRC16 mod 16,384) to one…

Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is an in-memory data store that holds its dataset in RAM for sub-millisecond access. Beyond simple key-value, Redis supports rich data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, bitmaps, and HyperLogLog.

How it works

A Redis server accepts commands over a simple text protocol (RESP). Commands are executed single-threaded, which…