Author: Redis Labs

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Haley Kim. As you may have heard, we recently announced the Redis Certified Developer program. Anyone can sign up for this certification program for free, but only engineers who take and pass the certification exam will become Redis Certified Developers. So, how do you prepare for the exam? How do you maximize your chances of passing and earning this coveted designation? Whether you’re already a veteran Redis expert or are still earning your spurs, there’s a process to put you on the right path and help ensure that you’re ready for your exam.  To begin, you’ll ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Haley Kim. To kick off the final month of 2019, some 65,000 cloud professionals will descend on Las Vegas for the industry event of the year, AWS re:Invent, a four-day extravaganza of keynote speakers, networking, learning, and training.  As always, Redis Labs will have a big presence at re:Invent. This year, we’re all in on the theme of Growth Happens. As your company and database needs grow, Redis Enterprise offers the best options for running Redis—one of the most widely used databases in AWS and the most loved by developers everywhere. To signify our focus on ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. Early on Tuesday, November 12, the Redis Labs DevOps team started to get bursts of alerts from our production clusters located in the Amazon Web Services eu-central region (Frankfurt, Germany). Upon further examination, they realized a significant outage was happening in AWS’ eu-central-1 data center, which was confirmed on the AWS status page, and eventually covered in the press: Screenshot of the AWS Status page on November 12, 2019. Cloud outages are not new to us. We have been running production Redis clusters since early 2013 and during that time we’ve experienced more than ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. When it comes to databases, there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who love to type commands and those who like to interact with their data visually. OK, maybe the world doesn’t always need to be divided into two categories. Sometimes you want the best of both worlds. And now Redis gives you exactly that—you can continue to use Redis’ familiar command-line interface (CLI) and also choose to work with your data visually. At RedisConf 2019 earlier this year, we announced that we were acquiring RDBTools—a popular graphical user interface (GUI) ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. Released in October 2018, the Redis Enterprise Kubernetes Operator is only about a year old, but multiple customers are already using it to run Redis Enterprise clusters in production. Now, as we celebrate our Kubernetes Operator’s first birthday, we are adding another powerful Day-2 operations enabler to its toolset: Automated cluster recovery.  For the first time, a Kubernetes Operator can manage a stateful service as if it were stateless, transforming how system operators and developers test, deploy, and manage Redis across environments.   A shard orchestration platform For some background, the Redis Enterprise cluster is ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Haley Kim. Today, we’re pleased to announce the availability of Redis Developer Certification. The new Redis Developer Certification program allows software developers to demonstrate their mastery of Redis. The program comprises an extensive study guide, a practice test, and a formal certification exam. Engineers who complete the exam with a passing score become Redis Certified Developers and receive a digital badge and certificate as proof of their accomplishment. The certification never expires. Why get certified? Redis is one of the most popular databases in the world. A key component in technology stacks in thousands of companies ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. The first Redis Day London was so much fun that we’re coming back to do it all over again. Join us on Tuesday, 12 November, for Redis Day London 2019—it’s your chance to enjoy speakers, networking, and informed discussion about everything and anything Redis. If you’re a Redis-oriented developer, engineer, software architect, programmer, or business professional, you won’t want to miss this free one-day event. (Want to get even more out of the event? Attend our special pre-conference training day on Monday, 11 November.) Register for Redis Day London 2019 now! At Redis Day ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. Today, we’re excited to announce the next step in Redis Labs’ partnership with Google Cloud: general availability of Redis Enterprise Cloud, the fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) on Google Cloud, which was announced earlier this year at Google Cloud Next ‘19  At Google Cloud Next, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Redis Labs co-founder and CEO Ofer Bengal stood together on stage to announce an expanded partnership with the goal of giving our joint customers a simplified and streamlined experience for building and running modern high-performance applications. With a commitment rooted in open source, they ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. At Redis Labs, we’ve always been dedicated to creating a vibrant culture in which our employees feel valued and well taken care of. It’s important to us to foster an environment that encourages employees to invest in their work knowing that their efforts are reflected in the company’s culture, reputation, and growth. We’ve been honored in the last month to win multiple awards highlighting the results of our efforts. We believe that Redis Labs team members play a critical part in making the company a great place to work—anywhere in the world. Deloitte’s 2018 ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. When writing a server application that connects to a database, you often have to deal with connection pools, with problematic repercussions if you ignore the issue for too long. So, let’s dive into the problem, and explore how connection pools address it. Too many connections Server applications share a common requirement: they must respond to independent requests originating from multiple clients. A naively written server application that uses Redis (or any other database) will open a new connection to Redis for each request. Unfortunately, this approach doesn’t scale, because you can open only a ... Read More