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The 7th principle, as laid out in the Redis Manifesto, really aligns with my beliefs and views, and probably those of all engineers (regardless of experience). There’s little in this w...

Update: redis-lua-debugger is not compatible with Redis v3 and above Imagine a red box. You put something in the box and wait for something else to come out (or not). Whatever comes out...

Or: To Err is Human, To Fix Debug. Mother of all Updates: Redis v3.2 features its very own Lua debugger. Update 1: I’ve followed up on the topic with a vastly superior debugging method...

For many of today’s applications, disk speed is extremely important, which is why some AWS users turn to the wide range of available Elastic Block Store (EBS) options. As an in-memory da...

Click here to get started with Redis Enterprise. Redis Enterprise lets you work with any real-time data, at any scale, anywhere. Redis is blazing fast and can easily handle hundreds o...

RedisInsight Update: In April 2019, we acquired RDBTools from HashedIn and created its successor RedisInsight, a browser-based management interface for your Redis deployment. It ...

While catching up with the world the other day, I read through the High Scalability guest post by Anshu and Rajkumar’s from Aerospike (great job btw). I really enjoyed the entire piece...

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) four months back, I had great discussions with game developers that use Redis – here’re my takes from that event. And this week, I was pleased to ...

Cloud computing can help host an application in a way that is both scalable and cost effective. The leading vendor in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) arena is Amazon Web Services ...

Modern applications have a general list of needs in order to not only survive, but thrive in today’s fast paced cloud environment. These include low response times (less than 100 millise...

Despite the setbacks that have been the cause of quite a few headaches, solutions do exist, and may be even simpler than anticipated. This series of installments will highlight some of ...

Recently we released the Memcached Cloud Plugin for WordPress, implementing the WordPress Object Cache. The plugin is based on the PECL Memcached extension (note the ending ‘d’), worki...

Redis provides a wide variety of tools directed at improving and maintaining efficient in-memory database usage. While its unique data types and commands fine-tune databases to serve app...

Sometimes inspiration strikes and you feel compeled to follow it. That’s exactly what had happened to me when I was reviewing Redis’ documentation repository – while browsing through the...

Last year we open-sourced memtier_benchmark, a high-throughput benchmarking tool for Redis and Memcached resources. At Redis, we use this tool on a daily basis, and those of you who gave...

Redis provides a wide variety of tools directed at improving and maintaining efficient in-memory database usage. While its unique data types and commands fine-tune databases to serve a...

Today I’m proud to present my latest contribution to the open source community – bmemcached-cli. It is a simple Python wrapper around python-binary-memcached that provides an easy way ...

Or: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They F(etch)all While you could consider them a “Rich People Problems,” big databases do present big challenges. Scaling and performance are perhaps ...

The recent Redis’ v2.8.9 was “the strangest beast” in its history of releases. Unlike previous versions, this release solely introduced new Redis functionality rather than defect fixes...

Securing Redis Client and Server with Stunnel What do you do if you want to secure access to your Redis? Plain password authentication (i.e. the AUTH command) only gets you so far and i...

Job scheduler programs have grown to become very popular in today’s web application world. Most commonly used to automatically run asynchronous and heavy jobs, schedulers have been utili...