January 2021 Summaries

Microservices architectures are dominating application development, with 89% of North American enterprise respondents using them, according to IDC's InfoBrief on The Impact of Application Modernization on the Data Layer. This trend is driven by enterprises' need for rapid app development, deployment, and updates to meet changing customer and business requirements. Despite this momentum, microservices adoption adds complexity, particularly in managing the data layer, with nearly half of enterprise apps relying on a database but citing database management as a top-three challenge. To address these challenges, developers must select the right data model, choose a lightweight and tunable database platform that supports multiple data models, and deploy it in a flexible manner to optimize performance and reliability. Redis Enterprise is well-suited for microservice deployments, offering high-performance, sub-millisecond latency, instant scalability, fault tolerance, and automated failover, as well as a unified operational interface to limit technology sprawl and simplify operations.

The HashiCorp Terraform Redis Enterprise Cloud provider allows customers to deploy and manage Redis Enterprise Cloud subscriptions, databases, and network peering easily as code on any cloud provider. This provider meets the increasing demand for infrastructure as code by enabling users to provision and manage their Redis Enterprise Cloud resources using Terraform configuration files. The provider can be used to create sample subscriptions with multiple databases, including those that use specific modules such as RedisJSON. To demonstrate its capabilities, a sample subscription is created and Terraform is run to provision the database, which successfully creates two new databases. Once the databases are created, users can access them through the RedisInsight GUI or by connecting their application to the database endpoints. The provider also supports production use cases with features such as secure credential storage and collaborative features like policy as code.