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Redis Transactions and Long-Running Lua Scripts

Redis offers two mechanisms for handling transactions – MULTI/EXEC based transactions and Lua scripts evaluation. In this post, we will explain the Redis transactional property of scripts, what this error is about, and why we must be extra careful about it on Sentinel-managed systems that can failover.

Atomicity” of Redis scripts is guaranteed in the following manner: It is highly recommended that the script complete within a time limit.

This is the maximum allowed time (in ms) that the script is allowed to run.

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