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This week on Tuesday, April 23rd, Amazon cloud’s eu-west-1 data region experienced a service degradation. It was not highly publicized, although some reported on Twitter about AWS’ con...

The process of comparing two versions of a database is a fairly common practice, generally used for testing and development purposes, as well as supporting application updates and new re...

Today we are happy to make two exciting announcements: we’ve made SSL support available for Redsmin and we’re releasing a couple of Redis clients that we’ve patched to support SSL. Since...

Over the last couple of days our team has been hard at work to address the newly-disclosed CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability (a.k.a. Heartbleed). We’ve completed proofing our service against t...

Recently, a known NoSQL vendor announced the addition of in-memory capabilities to its database offering. The decision to take a hybrid approach with their database offering brings up a ...

Two weeks ago the Redis team had exhibited in the 2014 Game Developers Conference. As the name suggests, the conference was packed with game developers and I had great discussions about ...

Thankfully, no humans are enslaved by Redis. Instead, it uses asynchronous replication “for scalability … or simply for data redundancy.” Also, “a [Redis] master can have multiple slav...

Arguably, one of the strongest benefits of the open source movement is that the community can get actively involved in the development of projects. Having access to the source code of an...

You’ve probably already heard about AWS’s outage last Sunday around noon PDT. The thud of that “minor” network-cum-storage issue in one of the busiest data regions of the Amazon forest c...

Everybody knows you should always use protection, or things can get pretty ugly fast. In the Cloud world, this translates to our in-memory datastore’s fault resilience, which effectively...

A little over 18 months ago we took our first baby steps in what has since then proved to be a wild and exciting ride. To the uninitiated outsider, a cloud service provider’s existence m...

Redis’ replication is an indispensable tool – it can be used both to heighten the availability of your Redis setup (you can read more about Redis availability in this post) as well as to...

Benchmarking is the practice of measuring the performance of a system to identify its limits. Benchmarking is an integral part of our service’s development process and we use it both for...

Eli kenn Chris Laskey matteo on the Redis group The Theory The Proof here memtier_benchmark -s <host> -p <port> -P redis -t 4 -n 10000 –ratio 1:1 -c 25 -x 10 -d 100 –key-pattern S...

Redis Slow Log is one of the best tools for debugging and tracing your Redis database, especially if you experience high latency and high CPU usage with Redis operations. This online dis...

Two weeks ago, Amazon launched its next generation of standard instances (M3 instances), adding twice the computational capability/cores while providing customers with the same balanced ...

Earlier this week, Flights With Friends wrote this post evaluating alternatives for using Redis on Heroku. Even though we were not selected as their favorite choice, we think they did a ...

As a provider of the Redis Cloud, we’re always testing out different configurations and options for Redis and AWS to help the Redis community achieve the best possible performance. This ...

As you may know, Running Redis with persistence storage on AWS has been a challenge for users. Local storage lacks data durability, and standard EBS is perceived to be slow and unpredict...

UPDATE: read our followup post Take #2 – Is Amazon SSD PIOPS Really Better? Two months ago, Amazon launched its EBS Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) for running high performance databases in th...

Those of us who use them know that Redis and Memcached were designed from the ground-up to achieve the highest throughput and the lowest latency for applications, and they are in fact th...