November 2014 Summaries

AWS re:Invent 2014 was an exciting event for Redis, with Amazon making several notable announcements that are particularly exciting for developers. The company introduced Lambda, a new service that allows developers to code on top of AWS' infrastructure without managing underlying compute resources. This is seen as a big step towards Amazon's pure PaaS model. Additionally, Amazon announced the EC2 Container Service, which facilitates container management and provides a free service for cluster management, authentication, firewalling, and movement between different availability zones. The third notable announcement was the launch of Amazon Aurora, a second-generation relational database that offers enhanced performance and availability through its scalable infrastructure and read replica mechanism. Overall, this year's announcements demonstrate Amazon's innovation and disruption in the IT industry, leaving Redis excited for next year's AWS re:Invent.

Tung Nguyen from Bleacher Report shares insights into building a blazingly fast API application using Redis at Database Month 2014, showcasing the company's experience with the technology and its performance under live traffic conditions. The presentation highlights key strategies and techniques used to optimize the application for speed and efficiency.

Redis performance was compared to magnetic disk, EBS with SSD, and EBS with SSD PIOPS in a benchmark test. The results showed that Redis running on SSD and SSD PIOPS performed much better than it did with magnetic disk, despite the latter being optimized for random access. The use of SSD PIOPS delivered better throughput compared to regular SSD offer, indicating that AWS' service offering is worth considering for data persistence needs.