tidwall/redcon

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Redcon is a Go library for building fast, Redis-compatible TCP servers using the Redis protocol (RESP). It provides a simple API with ListenAndServe, Conn, and Command types, supporting pipelining, TLS, pub/sub, and multithreading, and works with standard Redis clients.

Use cases

• build a custom redis-compatible server in go
• implement a key-value store that speaks the redis protocol
• create a redis-compatible in-memory cache service
• expose a custom data store to existing redis clients like redigo or jedis
• implement redis pub/sub compatible messaging server
• build a fast RESP protocol server with pipelining support

When to choose

• you need a Redis-protocol-compatible server with custom command handling in Go
• you want existing Redis clients to talk to your own backend storage
• you need high-performance RESP parsing and serving with pipelining and TLS

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured Redis server rather than a framework to build one
• you need a Redis client library rather than a server
• your project is not in Go (consider redcon.rs or redcon.c instead)

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-server networking serialization developer-tools databases backend networking go cross-platform redis-protocol redis-compatible-server tcp-server pub-sub pipelining

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