macOS
brew install nutcrackerlocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Installation
brew install nutcrackerlocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo apt install nutcrackerDebian stable package indexes · nutcracker · Quelle: deb.debian.org
Überblick
Proxy for memcached and redis
Verlauf
Nutcracker is the Homebrew formula name for Twitter's twemproxy, a small C proxy for memcached and Redis protocols. Twitter's README describes it as built to reduce backend cache-server connection counts, with pipelining and sharding used to scale distributed cache architectures.
The public changelog records a twemproxy 0.1.16 release on 2012-02-09, when the project was described as a fast, lightweight proxy for the memcached protocol. Redis support was visible to the Redis community by late 2012, when Salvatore Sanfilippo wrote about Twitter's proxy as a practical sharding layer before Redis Cluster was available.
twemproxy's package-nerd role was strongest in the early Redis and memcached scaling era: it let teams keep client libraries simple while putting consistent hashing, server pools, node ejection, and low backend connection counts in a separate process. Its Homebrew formula still exists as `nutcracker`/`twemproxy`, but Homebrew analytics on 2026-07-01 showed only 25 installs over 365 days, so the package-manager footprint is now mostly maintenance and legacy operations rather than new mainstream adoption.
Operators run the `nutcracker` daemon with a YAML configuration that defines one or more pools, listen addresses, hash/distribution choices, Redis mode, timeouts, and backend servers. Common production patterns are to run multiple proxy instances for availability and to decide explicitly whether failed backend ejection is acceptable for cache use or whether a fixed key-to-server map is required.
Nutcracker matters historically because it captures a pre-native-cluster moment in Redis/memcached operations: sharding was often pushed into clients or a lightweight proxy, and Homebrew/Debian/Ubuntu packaging made the proxy easy to install for local testing and operations scripts.
Sicherheitslage
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
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local files
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Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
conf/nutcracker.ymlExecutables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
nutcracker | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
test_all | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
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Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:nutcracker |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.5.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy |
| Repository | https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-06-19T12:32:40-07:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
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nutcracker 0.5.0+dfsg-2+b1
Fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and Redis
https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
sudo apt install nutcrackernutcracker 0.5.0+dfsg-2
Fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and Redis
https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
sudo apt install nutcrackerQuellspur
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