Category: Redis

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Sheryl Sage. (As organizations look to modernize their applications, many are turning to a microservices architecture to deconstruct their legacy apps into collections of loosely coupled services. This profound change inspired us to reach out to Redis Labs customers in various stages of this journey to microservice architectures. We will be telling their microservices stories in a series of blog posts in the coming weeks.)When Mutualink looked to modernize its Interoperable Response and Preparedness Platform (IRAPP), the company’s IT team turned to a microservices architecture to enable dozens of technology components to work seamlessly together. That’s ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Sheryl Sage. The data layer is one of the first things to consider when moving to a microservices architecture. That’s because in a microservices architecture, each service manages its own data and is responsible for its own private data store. Understanding the role of the database in each service is critical. Depending on the service, for example, database could be the single source of truth, a temporary store, or something in between. Kyle DavisLoris CroThat’s one of the most important concepts in our new free e-book: Redis Microservices for Dummies. Authors—and Redis Labs developer evangelists—Kyle Davis and ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Kyle Davis. This blog post was adapted from our new e-book, “Redis Microservices for Dummies” by Kyle Davis with Loris Cro. The excerpt was originally published on The New Stack on December 20, 2019. Download the complete e-book here.Many of today’s widely used database systems were developed in an era where a company adopted a single database across the entire enterprise. This single database system would store and run all the functions of the enterprise in one place. You can probably picture it: a room full of refrigerator-sized machines, many sporting oversize reel-to-reel tape drives.But Redis ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Kyle Davis. For many applications there exists a database and a cache. Each time data is needed from the database, the application has to do a short choreographed dance:Ask the cache for the data.If the cache doesn’t have the data, ask for the data from the database.Take that data from the database and populate it into the cache.Get a reply from the cache. Slow databases sow complexityThis dance adds significant complications in terms of application logic, connections between multiple services, and multiple potential points of failure. Why is this dance necessary? Simply put, to make up for the ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Tugdual Grall. As a new Enterprise Technical Account Manager at Redis Labs, one of my first tasks was to learn more about Redis. So I started digging in, and quickly discovered Redis Streams. As a big fan of streaming-based applications, I am thrilled to share what I’ve learned about how to use Redis Streams and Java.What is Redis Streams?Redis Streams is a Redis data type that represents a log, so you can add new information and message in an append-only mode (Note: This is not 100% accurate, since you can remove messages from the log, but it’s close ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. Hi. My name’s Guy Royse and I’m a brand-new Developer Advocate here at Redis Labs. Normally I don’t introduce myself at the beginning of a blog post (I think it’s a bit gauche) but since this is my first post for Redis Labs, it seemed appropriate.This might come as a surprise, but I’ve never put Redis into an application before. Well, more accurately, I had never put Redis into an application until right before I started working at Redis Labs. Before that I had never really given Redis more than a cursory examination. There ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Fredric Paul. Is it just us, or did 2019 seem to fly by? Maybe it just seemed that way because 2019 was such a big year for us here at Redis Labs: We continued to invest heavily in Redis Open Source and its ecosystem, we introduced important new features to Redis Enterprise, partnered with Google Cloud to offer Redis Enterprise as a native service on the GCP console, hosted events all around the world, welcomed legions of new customers, grew our staff and bolstered our executive team, and much more.And as 2020 rolls into town, we’re ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Haley Kim. Nadia is looking to take a summer holiday to Switzerland from her home in Bangalore, India. To plan her trip, she heads online to HolidayMe.com, an online travel agency based in Dubai, Riyadh, and Pune that curates thousands of expert-designed itineraries for customers to personalize. Juggling logistics for airfare, lodging, and attractions in an unfamiliar country can be complicated, and Nadia hopes HolidayMe will make it easier to organize everything in one place. But there are a number of inhibitors that can make the booking process aggravating. If Nadia can’t remember the name of a ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Haley Kim. Earlier this year, we released Redis Enterprise as a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) on Microsoft Azure, and are now authorized to sell Redis Enterprise through the Microsoft One Commercial Partner program. Since the announcement, Microsoft and Redis Labs have partnered to make it easy for users to run, scale, and manage Redis Enterprise on Azure. We are energized by the positive feedback we’ve gotten from customers and partners who are beginning to move their Redis Enterprise databases to Azure, and we want to make it easier for everyone to see the benefits of running Redis ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Haley Kim. This blog post was adapted from our new book “Redis Microservices for Dummies” by Kyle Davis with Loris Cro. Here’s how to download the complete volume.Reading the words “microservices architecture” might give you an intuitive idea of what the term means: small services in a computing architecture. That definition isn’t exactly wrong, but it’s also not completely correct. Microservices architectures are often referred to as a way to “break the monolith.” Sadly, this has nothing to do with 2001: A Space Odyssey, but rather the concept of breaking (or decomposing) a single, large program into ... Read More