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September 9, 2019

Async/Await Programming Basics with Python Examples

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 async/await,...

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August 28, 2019

How Redis Enterprise Manages Growing Data

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...

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August 21, 2019
OpenShift

Introduction to Redis Enterprise on OpenShift

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...

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July 22, 2019

5 Steps to Building a Great Redis Module

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...

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July 16, 2019

Introduction to RedisGears

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,...

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July 2, 2019

Meet Top-K: an Awesome Probabilistic Addition to Redis Features

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...

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June 27, 2019

RedisTimeSeries GA: Making the 4th Dimension Truly Immersive

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...

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June 27, 2019
Redis Enterprise Extends Linear Scalability

Redis Enterprise Extends Linear Scalability with 200M ops/sec @ <1ms latency on Only 40 AWS Instances

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 again that a...

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June 19, 2019
Inovonics

Inovonics: Choosing the Right Sensor to Work with RedisEdge for IoT Applications

In my previous post, I gave a high-level overview of our Redis-based, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technology at Inovonics, which is the leader in wireless networks. I...

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June 18, 2019

Why Modern Finance Applications Need Redis Enterprise

Data is the foundation of all digital transformation initiatives in finance, and Redis Enterprise is the industry’s high-performance database of choice. This enterprise edition of Redis simplifies the...

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June 17, 2019

Redis AI First Steps

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)...

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June 14, 2019

5 Steps for Selecting a High-Performance NoSQL Database

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 such...

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June 4, 2019

On Types and Transactions

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...

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June 3, 2019
Apache Spark

Redis Streams + Apache Spark Structured Streaming

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...

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May 29, 2019
Redis University

Learn Redis for Free at the Redis University Summer Session

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...

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May 29, 2019

Caches, Promises and Locks

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...

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May 13, 2019

The SET command is a strange beast

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...

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May 3, 2019

What to Choose for Your Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication Needs—Redis Streams, Redis Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.

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...

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May 2, 2019

What’s New in RedisGraph 1.2.0

Last week, we released RedisGraph 1.2.0. If you’ve been using RedisGraph or considering trying out the module, this is a good time to see what we’ve been up...

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May 1, 2019

Multi-Model in Action: Using RedisGraph and RediSearch together

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...

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April 30, 2019
Redis Enterprise

Query Caching with Redis

Find out if your cache is enterprise-grade, and learn how to: Scale globally while maintaining low latency and cache more efficiently to lower costs When I started out...