3 (More) Common Uses for Redis in the Gaming Industry
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...
NoSQLNow! 2014 Case Study: Bleacher Report on Redis Labs
Don’t miss Tung Nguyen’s appearance on stage at NoSQL Now! 2014 event, on Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 between 12pm and 12:30pm. In this 30 min session you will...
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...
Like a Kid in a Candy Store: Dataversity’s NoSQLNow! 2014
Here’s a shocking confession for you: I’m a data-phile. I am fascinated by data and everything that has to do with it. Even after having spent the last...
Managing 50K+ Redis Databases Over 4 Public Clouds with a Tiny Devops Team
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...
Our previous installments in this series had discussed Redis' replication buffer and timeouts. In this post we'll fill you in on yet another type of buffer that Redis...
Turbo Boost WordPress with a Secure Memcached Plugin
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’), working...
Top Redis Headaches for Devops – Replication Timeouts
Following our previous installment in the series, the Replication Buffer, the next headache on our list will carry on with the topic of master-slave replication. In particular, we...
Originally published on bleacherreport.com Intro Our API service uses Redis as it’s caching layer. The Redis set operations are extremely useful for the logic required in our...
Red is Beautiful: A Visualization of Redis Commands
Sometimes inspiration strikes and you feel compeled to follow it. That’s exactly what had happened to me when I was reviewing Redis’ documentation repository – while browsing through...
New in memtier_benchmark: Pseudo-Random Data, Gaussian Access Pattern and Range Manipulation
Last year we open-sourced memtier_benchmark, a high-throughput benchmarking tool for Redis and Memcached resources. At Redis, we use this tool on a daily basis, and those of you...
There’s 104 days of summer vacation and in our industry there’s no shortage of ways to spend them. Last week we were at MongoDB World, and next week...
Top Redis Headaches for Devops – Replication Buffer
Redis provides a wide variety of tools directed at improving and maintaining efficient in-memory database usage. While its unique data types and commands fine-tune databases to serve application...
It is with great pleasure that I share Redis’ successes regarding customer care and performance. This case study, in particular, epitomizes the need for clear communication and instant...
I’m delighted to announce the official beta launch of our Redis Cloud service on IBM’s BlueMix. Big Blue’s BlueMix is an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture, which...
Because What The World Needs is Another Memcached CLI
Today I’m proud to present my latest contribution to the open source community – bmemcached-cli. It is a simple Python wrapper around python-binary-memcached that provides an easy way...
Customer satisfaction is Redis’ highest priority. As such, it is with great pleasure that I share another success story, this time with one of our longstanding customers, Pixlee....
Join Redis Labs at the Cloud Foundry Summit in San Francisco!
The Redis team joins Cloud Foundry to celebrate cloud operations and open source on June 9th, 10th, and 11th! Redis is a proud sponsor and exhibitor at the...
I Have 500 Million Keys But What’s In My Redis DB?!?
Or: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They F(etch)all While you could consider them a “Rich People Problems,” big databases do present big challenges. Scaling and performance are...
My Schedule for the Upcoming 2014 Cloud Foundry Summit
In less than two weeks, Pivotal is holding its annual Cloud Foundry summit in San Francisco and our team is gearing up for the event. Cloud Foundry has...