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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Redis with Alvin Richards (Summer Break Repeat)
Description: Originally published October 24, 2019. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes.Redis is an in-memory database that persists to disk. Redis is commonly used as an object cache for web applications.Applications are composed of caches and databases. A cache typically stores the data in memory, and a database typically stores the data on disk. Memory has significantly faster access times, but is more expensive and is volatile, meaning that if the computer that is holding that piece of data in memory goes offline, the data will be lo...