/Redis

Four Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot With Redis

- Phil Booth tl;dr: Phil shares lessons learned from production outages caused by misusing Redis. They highlight the importance of handling concurrency by sharding data across multiple instances, avoiding long-running operations in scripts, setting memory usage alerts, and using the appropriate Redis abstractions. Serializing objects to JSON for storage is discouraged, and understanding tradeoffs between data structures can prevent future issues.

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Redis Explained

- Mahdi Yusuf tl;dr: Redis is coined off of “Remote Dictionary Service”, and is an "open-source key-value database server. The most accurate description of Redis is that it's a data structure server." Mahdi highlights various deployments of Redis, their trade-offs and its internal architecture.

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Redis 7.0 Is Out!

- Itamar Haber tl;dr: "Redis 7.0 includes incremental improvements to almost every one of its aspects. Most notable are Redis Functions, ACLv2, command introspection, and Sharded Pub/Sub, which represent a significant evolution of existing features based on users’ feedback and lessons learned in production."

featured in #312

The End Of The Redis Adventure

- Salvatore Sanfilippo tl;dr: "In essence, I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer." Salvatore, who found Redis, is stepping down as a maintainer, but remaining on the advisory board.

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Moving Persistent Data Out of Redis

- Bryana Knight Miguel Fernandez

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84% of a Single-Threaded 1KB Write in Redis is Spent in the Kernel

- Alex Klemmer

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Walrus: Lightweight Python Utilities for Working with Redis

- Charles Leifer

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Redis Cluster, No Longer Vaporware

- Jay Kreps

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