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 than 100 millise...
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JUL.28.2014
Top Redis Headaches for Devops – Client Buffers
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 ...
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JUL.23.2014
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’), worki...
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JUL.21.2014
Top Redis Headaches for Devops – Replication Timeouts
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 app...
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JUL.16.2014
Redis Labs Performance Testing With Live Traffic
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 API servi...
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JUL.14.2014
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 the...
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JUL.8.2014
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 who gave...
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JUN.30.2014
Whatcha Doin’? AWS Summit 2014 New York
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 it’s going to be all about the Amazon...
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JUN.26.2014
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 a...
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JUN.24.2014
Scopely Gets the High Scores with Redis Labs
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 r...
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JUN.19.2014
7 Recommended MongoDB World Sessions
Next week the Redis team is attending MongoDB World. We’re planning to spend most of our the time at the booth (#110) and we would love it if you’d stop over! We have #RedisGeek tees and...
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JUN.18.2014
Redis Cloud Beta on IBM BlueMix
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 leverages ...
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JUN.12.2014
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 ...
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JUN.5.2014
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 upcoming Cloud Foundry Summit...
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JUN.5.2014
How Pixlee Uses Redis Labs to Serve Top Brands
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. A recen...
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JUN.2.2014
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 perhaps ...
We’ve just released our formal announcement about Redis’ Q1 results and the numbers speak for themselves. This is first and foremost solid proof of Redis’ amazing popularity and the cent...
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MAY.28.2014
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 been and will continue to be a piv...
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MAY.23.2014
How to Use Redis at Least x1000 More Efficiently
The recent Redis’ v2.8.9 was “the strangest beast” in its history of releases. Unlike previous versions, this release solely introduced new Redis functionality rather than defect fixes...
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MAY.13.2014
Using Stunnel to Secure Redis
Securing Redis Client and Server with Stunnel What do you do if you want to secure access to your Redis? Plain password authentication (i.e. the AUTH command) only gets you so far and i...
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MAY.13.2014
Heads Up: DevConTLV Summit 2014
This is the third year that DevConTLV will be taking place and by the looks of it, it will be a huge success. All the right ingredients are in place: a schedule packed with interesting t...