Customer Q&A: Redis Enterprise in Action at Smartwaiver

Ted Knudsen, CTO at Smartwaiver, uses Redis Enterprise in various ways throughout its application infrastructure, including powering kiosk applications with autofill functionality and maintaining daily statistics and dashboards. The database's data structures, such as Lists, Hashes, Sets, and Sorted Sets, are particularly useful for implementing complex functionality with simplicity. For analytics, Smartwaiver relies on Redis to run internal dashboards, leveraging data structures like Lists and Hashes to display recent waivers and more complex graphs. Caching is also a key use case, with Redis used to cache information about kiosks and implement webhooks. Compared to other in-memory databases like ElastiCache, Redis Enterprise Pack has proven to be a cost-efficient and high-performance choice for Smartwaiver's VPC environment.