As a developer, if your game is endless (one without predefined levels), and if you are still not including leaderboards, you are definitely missing a trick. People want to know how they are…

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A gaming platform faced severe performance issues with MySQL-based leaderboards, taking 30+ seconds to load for 1 million users. By migrating to Redis sorted sets (ZSETs), they reduced response times from 30 seconds to under 50 milliseconds. The implementation uses ZADD for storing user scores, ZCOUNT for ranking, and ZREVRANGE for pagination. While Redis dramatically improved performance, challenges remain with initial data loading for large datasets and concurrent write operations affecting query response times.

Blazing Fast Leaderboards using Redis

<p>or just have an initial load and then use websockets for updates and have a fraction of the requests made to the server and be realtime.</p>


<p>Cannot wait to learn redis soon seems like de facto caching! :)</p>
