With T212129 done, we have no use for nutcracker running on our app servers, thus, it is high time we removed it.
~~Nutcracker is currently not maintained (has something like 6 commits over the last 4 years, all merging external pull requests) and is currently used only to proxy connections to the redises running on the memcached hosts.
I would like to simplify our stack by removing nutcracker from the path to redis. To substitute for it, we can:
1 - Use the sharding/failover functionality baked into `RedisBagOfStuff`, at the cost of slightly worse performance because we would do hash routing in PHP. The risk I see is that we'd have to enable persistent connections in php-redis
2 - Use envoy also to proxy to redis - the redis support in envoy is pretty advanced at this point and includes the ability to mirror writes, which is interesting to us. See https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.16.0/intro/arch_overview/other_protocols/redis.html. The only risk here is that some quirks in envoy's proxying cause problems.~~