adding connection pooling to redis (#554)

Author: chriswedgwood

djangosnippets/settings/production.py

@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ def env_to_bool(input):
         "OPTIONS": {
             "PASSWORD": redis_url.password,
             "DB": 0,
+            "CONNECTION_POOL_CLASS": "redis.BlockingConnectionPool",
+            "CONNECTION_POOL_CLASS_KWARGS": {
+                "max_connections": 20,
+                "timeout": 20,
+            },
         },
     }
 }

docker-compose.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ services:
   web:
     build: .
     environment:
-      - REDISTOGO_URL=${REDISTOGO_URL}
+      - REDISCLOUD_URL=${REDISCLOUD_URL}
       - SECRET_KEY=${SECRET_KEY}
       - DEBUG=${DEBUG}
       - ALLOWED_HOSTS=${ALLOWED_HOSTS}