Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Redis Strings Use Cases. Who uses Redis?

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

In 2009 at Velocity–the annual performance optimization conference–there was a flurry of information released by companies that clearly demonstrated how performance effects key business objectives. Shopzilla presented information detailing how they were able to speed up their site from 4-6 seconds to 1.5 21% less searches.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote an ftrace toolkit, [perf-tools], and the article [Ftrace: the hidden light switch]. - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. It's the official profiler. Many new tools can now be written, and the main toolkit we're working on is [bcc].

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