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What Redis client-side connection settings can be adjusted to mitigate 'ETIMEDOUT' errors due to transient network issues?
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To improve resilience against transient timeouts: 1. **Connection Timeout**: Increase the `connect_timeout` (or equivalent) setting in your client configuration. This gives the client more time to establish the initial TCP handshake, useful in high-latency networks. 2. **Retry Strategy**: Configure a robust retry strategy with exponential backoff. Many modern Redis client libraries offer this feature, allowing the client to wait for increasing durations before retrying a failed connection. 3. **KeepAlive**: Enable TCP KeepAlive. This sends small probes periodically to ensure the connection is still active and prevents idle connections from being silently dropped by firewalls or network devices. 4. **Max Retries**: Set a maximum number of retries after which the client gives up and reports a persistent failure.