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The spark-redis package on github is our1 first step in the Spark-Redis journey. Spark has captured the public imagination around the real-time possibilities of big data and we1 hope t...

Just before Christmas, Salvatore Sanfilippo published the first release candidate for Redis v3.2. The upcoming v3.2 delivers new features (such as geo spatial indexes and cluster rebalan...

Over the recent weeks there’s been an increase in the number of reports about NoSQL breaches in general, but also specifically in those relating to Redis. The latter is, in all likelihoo...

Adapted from Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham”. Link to text, art copyrighted by Dr. Seuss. I am San. I am San. San I am. That San-I-am! That San-I-am! I do not like that San-I-am! Do y...

I usually begin this type of post with a variation on the sentence “Today I am delighted to…” Today, however, these words aren’t filler — they truly are the best way to express that I am...

What happened? Last week, in a post titled “Redis EVAL Lua Sandbox Escape”, security researcher Ben Murphy unveiled the details of a known Lua exploit that can be used for breaking out o...

“I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.” — Freddie Mercury A new NoSQL benchmark was just released by Avalon Consulting, LLC, and I couldn’t b...

or DataStax, Aerospike, Couchbase and Redis: Serving 1M Writes/Sec From Google Compute Engine A couple of months ago I published a post over at the Google Cloud Platform blog called “A ...

“…as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are ...

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...