Redis on ARM (3 minutes to read)

With Redis aligned to run on ARM devices, Salvatore Sanfilippo @antirez had added a new documentation page at redis.io that includes relevant notes and some performance figures (hey, why no #PiZero?!?)

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017 (54 minutes to read thoroughly)

tl;dr Redis is the most-loved database by the community 😉 via the awesome team of Stack Overflow @StackOverflow

The latest round of Google Open Source Peer Bonus winners (<1 minute to skim)

Summer of Code @gsoc acknowledges 52 additional exceptional OSS developers, of which I know at least one.

Defining Moments in Database History (6 minutes to read)

A timeless piece from Baron Schwartz @xaprb, who saw it all coming and continues prophesying.

Bash completion for redis server and cli #foss #bash #kewl

Between this and that, señor Dvir Volk @dvirsky put together a thingamajig that adds command-line TAB-completion to redis-server and redis-cli in bash. To use, just save and source the gisted script from your .profile file.

A table of the shortest possible alphanumeric string that is mapped by redis’ crc16 to any given cluster slot #foss #C

Another useful gist from Dvir Volk @dvirsky that should be come in handy for anyone who wants to develop her/his own code that shards into hash slots like Redis Cluster does. The author had used advanced techniques to generate this and promises the sequences are the shortest possible, making it ideal for embedding in with minimal stack overhead.

More fun than Clash of Clans – Redis on Android #foss #android #uberkewl

If you’re lucky enough to have an Android phone, David Martínez @vaites and Termux @termux just made it possible to run Redis on it (although this does not leverage the new support for ARM). Is that a Redis in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

1. Get Termux from Google Play or F-Droid, and launch it
2. Install Redis: packages install redis
3. Run the server: redis-server

Scaling your API with rate limiters (8 minutes to read)

Stripe @stripe‘s Paul Tarjan @ptarjan provides the context, rational and use cases for different API rate limiters. Production source code is included.

An Afternoon of Code Golf (in Lua) to Achieve 4x performance in Redis (6 min read)

A tale by Kurt Norwood @kortox of Amplitude @amplitudemobile that shows the power of server-side scripting with Lua, cutting latency and improving concurrency. The thing to remember is that even if your Redis topology is different than Kurt’s, Lua is still the best way to go for composing commands and reducing the number of network round trips.

OH Christopher Najewicz @tehsuck

Once it’s bootstrapped, redis / sentinel is magical for m/s replication and HA. #devops

Redis NFL Leaderboard #howto #Ruby #Mongoid

Don’t let the title fool you. Yes, everybody probably knows that Redis’ Sorted Sets are the natural choice for leaderboards, but in this article author dmitrypol @dmitrypol includes an extra clever trick: using Mongoid for the mapping.

OH Kris Walker @kixxauth

Data structures are thrilling.I’m seeing of merit of using Redis as a primary, transactional database.

Real-time Deduping At Scale (8 minutes to read)

Doing analytics on 2 million messages per minute is, to say the least, challenging. Once you choose at-least-once message delivery semantics, like the Tapjoy Engineering @TapjoyEng team have, detecting and discarding duplicate message can become a real pita of their Kafka-Spark-Postgres pipeline.

Enter Redis and  ♥ Aaron Pfeifer @obrie‘s recounting of how it is used to dedupe transactions. To save on RAM overhead, Hashes are used as containers. To increase performance, Lua is employed to bring the CPU to the data.

Note: I’m somewhat ambivalent WRT the team’s approach to scaling – application-side sharding is so 2013 😉 But then again, that really depends on your Redis deployment and Redis-as-a-Service provider 😉

Want unlimited scale and performance? This is where to start (5 minutes to read)

Szymon Warda @maklipsa reviews the foundations of key-value databases, and compares the prominent features between a few: Memcached, Riak and Redis.

OH tampe125 @tampe125

I’m officially in love with #redis

Configuring Redis Session State In ASP.NET Core #howto #ASPNETCore #CSharp

Title says it all, but this is still a source of confusion for many so hopefully this will help. Via C# Corner @CsharpCorner.

A Guide to Redis with Redisson #howto #Java

Eugen (Baeldung) @baeldung writes Java tutorials. After having already covered using Spring Data and Jedis, here’s one about Redisson.

Note: IMO the next article that Eugen needs to produce is about LettuceDriver @LettuceDriver, which BTW had recently graduated to being a top-level project – congrats Mark Paluch @mp911de and Pivotal @pivotal!

Redis as a Shared Data Store Between Rails Apps #howto #Rails

Sophie DeBenedetto @sm_debenedetto teaches how to use Redis (the “Swiss Army knife of Databases”, anonymous) as a shared data store between applications.

Node, Redis, and You! (32:13 minutes to watch) #microservices

Thomas Hunter II @tlhunter writes a book on Microservices, and talks about building them with Node and Redis (the “Super Glue of Microservices”, I.H).

Slides: https://thomashunter.name/presentations/node-redis-v1/

Applying Lambda Architecture on Azure #howto

Even if you’ll end up writing your own code and deploying it on a different cloud this is, at the very least, a nice overview of Lambda architecture’s principles. Redis in the Speed layer is the natural choice (and this isn’t another drug reference) – via CodeProject @codeproject.

OH gelin yan @mathgl

have used redis as ipc for years. It is easy to use, maintain and has plenty of drivers.

Displaying My Garage Door Status with Losant #howto #IoT

While technically involving an ARM device, this hack from Robbie Page @rorpage is developed using Losant @LosantHQ‘s platform with Redis^e Cloud storing the current status of the door.

Point to Point Data Streaming (Audio / Video / Whatever) #howto #IoT

Scott Lobdell @slobdell3 uses Redis as an “intermediary buffer” for streaming the baby-monitor’s video of his good son (does he have other kinds?) in the home front.

Keeping your Redis in shape in 3 simple steps #howto

Omer Levi Hevroni @omerlh from Soluto Engineering @SolutoEng is using Redis from my favorite Redis-as-a-Service provider for many purposes, but he has a feature request that we’ve yet to provide: emailing multiple recipients when a subscription’s resources are about to be exhausted. I’ve already notified our PM team, but until we roll out this feature and for any other monitoring needs that you may have here or anywhere else have, Omri was kind enough (after gentle prodding ;)) to share his solution that uses webdis and a Nagios @nagiosinc/Icinga @icinga plugin that he wrote.

OH Taylor Weibley @themcgruff

@antirez’s redis continues to be the shining star in all the pieces of our stack. Awesome feature of the day is “notify-keyspace-events”.

Redis and Cache Pre-Generation #howto #Rails

Another guide from the same dmitrypol @dmitrypol, in which he reviews two use cases that implement preemptive caching.

A Key Expired In Redis, You Won’t Believe What Happened Next (11 minutes to read)

Grab Engineering @grabengineering tell how they tracked down an unexpected behavior concerning cached unicorns, key expiration and the use of slaves… but as noted in the comments by the creator, this was first reported by YouPorn years ago (albeit minus the unicorns one should hope). That said, it is still an important lesson learn, so make sure you read it all the way through (including the footnotes, and especially the 1st one).

OH Matthew Martin @mistersql

definition of insanity is making 30 day backups of Redis when all keys have EXPIRES far smaller than 30 days.

<– not according to the DSM-V’s definitions, but it certainly is wasteful in terms of storage and recovery time #protip

OH Matthew Martin @mistersql

Redis has an Icelandic command, Hvals. Returns all the whales in a hash. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hval

<- good to know!