December 2019 Summaries

Redis had a remarkable year in 2019, marked by significant investments in its open-source and enterprise offerings, new feature announcements, partnerships with major cloud providers, and expansion into new markets. The company continued to grow its staff and bolstered its executive team, while also making it easier for customers to use Redis Enterprise across multiple clouds. Notably, Redis achieved co-sell ready status through the Microsoft One Commercial Partner program, expanded its workforce, and launched a new certification program for developers. The company's products were recognized with several industry awards, including being named most-loved database by Stack Overflow's 2019 Developer Survey and Leader in Forrester's NoSQL Wave. Redis also made headlines with its partnerships with Google Cloud and the publication of its new ebook on microservices architecture. With $60 million in funding, Redis is poised to continue building on its success and driving growth in the coming year.

Nadia is looking to take a summer holiday to Switzerland from her home in Bangalore, India, and plans to use HolidayMe.com, an online travel agency that curates thousands of expert-designed itineraries for customers to personalize. To minimize issues during the booking process, HolidayMe relies on Redis Enterprise as its primary database, which has helped speed up data output by 50 to 60 times and enabled a more modern microservices architecture. The company uses Redis' Hashes, Sets, and Lists to process data and update geographic information, and created its own key structures for specific queries. HolidayMe also leveraged RediSearch to build a search autocomplete mechanism that has provided the best latency, with a complete transformation taking only two days to implement.

We are excited to announce our participation in the Azure Sponsorship Program, which grants qualified users access to complimentary infrastructure for thorough evaluations of Redis Enterprise on Azure for up to 90 days. This program offers a risk-free chance to experience the benefits of running Redis Enterprise on Azure, including its simplicity and blazing fast performance, as seen by leading e-commerce platforms that are embracing Redis Enterprise on Azure. We have partnered with Microsoft to make it easy for users to run, scale, and manage Redis Enterprise on Azure, and we want to make it easier for everyone to see the benefits of this solution.

AWS re:Invent has announced a Cassandra-compatible serverless managed solution, which is expected to increase demand for Cassandra-like solutions and allow AWS to contribute back improvements to the open source community. However, some developers are concerned that this move may cause a split in the Cassandra community due to feature disparity between the original Cassandra and the AWS offering. This has been seen before with other open source projects such as Redis and Elasticsearch, where AWS's managed solutions have led to an incomplete vision of the open source project's direction and benefits for some users. The overall impact of AWS's actions on the open source community remains a subject of debate.

We're excited to host the first-ever Redis Day Bangalore on January 21-22, featuring a special keynote from Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo, a hackathon, training sessions, and presentations from Indian customers on using Redis for various purposes. The event is designed for developers, engineers, software architects, programmers, and business professionals who want to learn about the latest developments in Redis. Additionally, we're hosting Redis Day Seattle on January 13-14, which will also feature insightful keynotes, customer presentations, a hackathon, and training sessions. Both events offer opportunities to network with other Redis enthusiasts and gain knowledge on using Redis for real-world applications.

Redis has evolved from a caching and session storage solution into the primary database for high-performance stateful applications. Companies like Gap and Alliance Data have successfully implemented real-time applications at enterprise scale using Redis Enterprise, which provides fast database performance, easy-to-learn data structures, and operational simplicity across multiple data structures and modules. This has allowed them to improve customer experiences by optimizing fulfillment and shipping of online orders, quadrupling throughput, boosting application uptime, and onboarding customers they could not previously support.

AWS re:Invent is a significant event for cloud computing and enterprise software, where companies showcase their latest innovations. AWS CEO Andy Jassy made several key announcements in his keynote address, including the need to adopt cloud-native architectures and the importance of building solutions that work both in the cloud and on-premises. The majority of the IT market remains on premises, with 97% still using traditional infrastructure, highlighting the need for hybrid data layer strategies. Redis Enterprise's Active-Active features are well-suited for supporting multi-geo applications with a scalable, geo-local database. Jassy also emphasized the importance of creating purpose-built databases that cater to specific use cases, such as Redis Enterprise offering multiple data models within one cluster. The newly announced RedisInsight tool provides visibility into Redis clusters and modules, reducing operational complexity. Additionally, AWS's managed Cassandra service announcement is building on top of the OSS community, while Redis remains committed to open source principles. Finally, Jassy highlighted the growing importance of cloud-native applications built with Kubernetes and serverless compute options, which Redis Enterprise can support seamlessly.

AWS re:Invent 2019 saw over 65,000 cloud professionals descend on Las Vegas for the largest event in the cloud industry. Redis Enterprise participated with a focus on their theme of "Growth Happens," emphasizing how they can help businesses manage growth smoothly and effectively. The company hosted various events such as a sumo wrestling tournament, educational sessions, and booth activities at the Venetian. They also announced new features and products during the event. Redis Enterprise plans to continue engaging with developers and database professionals through upcoming RedisDays events in Seattle, Bangalore, and San Francisco.

Redis Day Seattle 2020 is an upcoming event scheduled for January 13-14, featuring a full day of training sessions on Monday and a single-track conference with keynotes and user stories on Tuesday. The event will bring together developers, engineers, software architects, programmers, and business professionals to learn from the Redis community. Notable speakers include Yiftach Shoolman, Scott Haines, Jane Paek, Dmitry Polyakovsky, Kyle Davis, and Loris Cro, who will share their expertise on various topics related to Redis. The training day on Monday costs $149 per person, while the programming on Tuesday is complimentary. Additionally, a separate event will be held in Bengaluru, India on January 21-22 with a special Redis hackathon.