What should a service do if Redis is temporarily unavailable?
Practice this question from Quiz: Redis Cache Design for Interviews, with options and an explanation.
Question
What should a service do if Redis is temporarily unavailable?
Option A — Correct answer
Degrade gracefully with DB fallback, timeouts, and alerts
Option B
Crash immediately
Option C
Return fake successful writes
Option D
Delete all database rows
Explanation
Redis failure should usually degrade performance, not break correctness.