Data

Redis Development

In-memory speed for caching, queues, sessions and rate limits.

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Redis is the piece of infrastructure that quietly makes everything else fast. Expensive query results are cached rather than recomputed, slow work is queued instead of blocking a request, sessions are shared across servers, and rate limits are enforced at speed. Its value shows most under load: it is usually the difference between a traffic spike lengthening a queue and a traffic spike stopping the site.

Why we use it

Redis sits in every production system we run. Queues carry notification dispatch, report generation and integration calls; caching absorbs read-heavy pages; rate limiting protects forms and APIs at the edge. We are careful about what we put in it. Redis is not a database of record — anything that must survive a restart with certainty belongs in the primary store, and treating a cache as a source of truth is a well-trodden route to a bad afternoon.