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Introduction While developing redismodule-rs, the Rust API for writing Redis modules, I encountered the need to set up a custom memory allocator. Normally, when a Rust program needs to...

When writing a server application that connects to a database, you often have to deal with connection pools, with problematic repercussions if you ignore the issue for too long. So, let’...

I honestly disagree with the conventional wisdom of never using a goto in your code. There are several situations where I find it to be not just convenient but good practice. The most co...

In recent years, many programming languages have made an effort to improve their concurrency primitives. Go has goroutines, Ruby has fibers and, of course, Node.js helped popularize asyn...

We recently surveyed our customers and received some great and interesting feedback. For instance, we found out that 71% of users increased their usage of Redis Enterprise because their ...

Here’s a brief introduction to Red Hat OpenShift, including questions we often get asked and our thoughts on why it’s a great choice for deploying and running your Redis Enterprise Clust...

Here are five things to keep in mind when writing a Redis module. While this list is non-exhaustive, my aim is to offer a good way to get started if you don’t yet have much experience wi...

At RedisConf19, we announced the release of a new module called RedisGears. You may have already seen some other modules by either Redis or the community at large, but Gears will defy an...

Background You may find yourself wondering whether you should use more probabilistic data structures in your code. The answer is, as always, it depends. If your data set is relatively s...

All modern consumer applications must scale easily and cost-efficiently, and for this, linear database performance is key. With our shared-nothing architecture, we’ve proven again and ...

Today we are happy to announce the general availability (GA) of RedisTimeSeries v1.0. RedisTimeSeries is a Redis module developed by Redis to enhance your experience managing time series...

At RedisConf 2019, Redis introduced a new module called RedisAI. The idea is to bring together machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) and execute artificial intelligence (AI) model...

Development teams building online and operational applications increasingly choose a new class of databases to support them. It’s called “NoSQL,” or “Not Only SQL”, and includes options ...

Transactions in any database are intimidating. It requires a level of understanding beyond just what is stored, but also when it is stored. Unlike the happy world that results when count...

Recently, I had the honor of presenting my talk, “Redis + Structured Streaming: A Perfect Combination to Scale-out Your Continuous Applications” at the Spark+AI Summit. My interest in t...

Instagram recently published a post on their engineering blog about the concept of promisifying cached values. The idea is that, on a cache miss, it takes a while to fetch the missing va...

Summer is a great time for relaxing, unwinding, and picking up a good book. And, personally, I always try to learn something new. But I’ve found it has to be manageable! I admit to faili...

The Helicoprion is a now extinct but strange animal that roamed the seas of the early Permian. It looks more or less similar in both size and shape to a contemporary Great White Shark. M...

Let’s talk about communication tools and patterns. With the introduction of Streams in Redis, we now have another communication pattern to consider in addition to Redis Pub/Sub and other...

At RedisConf19, I demoed a solution for running full-text RediSearch over nodes in RedisGraph. The days leading up to the event are a bit of a fog, but now, a few weeks later, I realized...

Redis Day New York is fast approaching (June 27th – get your tickets NOW). This will be a new event for New York, but not a new event for us. We’ve done it three times in Tel Aviv, once ...