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AWS Announces Redis 7 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 7 compatibility with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features, such as Redis Functions, ACL improvements, and Sharded Pub/Sub.
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Netflix Builds a Custom High-Throughput Priority Queue Backed by Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
Netflix recently published how it built Timestone, a custom high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system. They built it using open-source components such as Redis, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Elasticsearch. Engineers state that they made Timestone since they could not find an off-the-shelf solution that met all of its requirements.
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Google Updates its Cloud MemoryStore with Read Replicas, RDB Snapshots, and Flushless Updates
Recently, Google announced a few updates for its Cloud MemoryStore, a fully-managed in-memory store compatible with open-source Redis. These updates are generally available (GA) Read Replicas, RDB (Redis database) snapshots in preview, and the launch of the flushless update for basic tier instances.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database. The new database service is intended for applications that require microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write performance with data durability and high availability.
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GitHub Scales Its Rate Limiter Using Redis
Yesterday GitHub engineer Robert Mosolgo posted a detailed account of how GitHub scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis. GitHub migrated from an older Memcached-based rate limiter to a Redis-based one. According to Mosolgo, the new implementation has improved reliability, fixed issues for clients, and reduced GitHub's support load.
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Microsoft Announces Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Cache for Redis would support multiple availability zones, expanding the availability and resiliency. The update to the service means customers can significantly enhance the availability of their Azure Cache for Redis instance.
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AWS Announces Redis 6 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 6 compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features such as Managed Role-Based Access Control, Client-Side caching and some significant operational improvements.
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Q&A about New Governance for Redis after Maintainer Salvatore Sanfilippo Steps Down
InfoQ caught up with Redis core team members and chief architect at Redis Labs, Yossi Gottlieb, and senior software architect at Redis Labs, Oran Agra, about the new governance board and the future of Redis.
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Redis Labs Partners with Microsoft to Deliver a New Redis Cache for Developers
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Redis Labs to deliver Redis Enterprise as newly, fully integrated tiers of Azure Cache for Redis. The enhanced service offering, currently in private preview, will provide customers with two new Enterprise tiers.
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DigitalOcean Adds Managed MySQL and Redis Services
Cloud provider DigitalOcean recently released a pair of new managed data services. Their Managed MySQL and Redis offerings are on-demand and elastic, and offer a variety of sizes and high-availablity options.
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Google Cloud Memorystore Adds Import-Export and Redis 4.0
In a recent announcement, Google has unveiled two new features for Cloud Memorystore, their fully managed Redis service. These features consist of the beta of import-export, allowing to import and export data from and to other Redis instances, as well as the general availability of Redis 4.0 support.
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RedisTimeSeries Module Adds Time Series Database Features to Redis
Redis Labs announced the general availability of a module RedisTimeSeries to provide time series storage and analysis functions.
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Load Balancing Search Traffic at Algolia with NGINX and OpenResty
Algolia’s engineering team made the switch from round-robin DNS load-balancing to a mix of DNS and NGINX with OpenResty. The solution, which uses custom Lua and Go code, and Redis-based service discovery of backend servers, helped in distributing load across their app servers and preventing latency issues.
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Redis 5.0 Released with New "Streams" Data Type
Redis recently announced version 5 of its popular database, 15 months after the release of Redis 4. Probably the most important feature of this version is the support for a new data type, Streams. Sorted set functionality has also improved and Redis modules have also been expanded, with the introduction of Clusters and Timers APIs. LOLWUT and other improvements are reviewed in the article...
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Microsoft Announce General Availability of Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of geo-replication support for the Azure Redis Cache service, Microsoft’s hosted implementation of the open-source Redis cache. The announcement follows a public preview that was announced in June 2017.