Timing is everything… Especially when orchestrating the migration of a sharded Redis backend with a strict requirement for minimal application downtime. That is exactly the challenge w...

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...

We have just announced the launch of our Multiple Availability Zones for Garantia Data’s Redis & Memecached clouds. To learn how our Multi-AZ solution works, just keep reading. Availabil...

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...

For the second time during June 2012, the AWS us-east-1 region failed, this time due to a power outage caused by extreme weather conditions, according to Amazon. For those of you who use...

We are launching today the first in-memory NoSQL cloud, which will change the way people use Memcached and Redis. This is a great opportunity to examine the state of these RAM-based data...