Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Redis is an open-source in-memory data store. You can use Redis as a database, message broker, or cache. It also supports Lua script evaluation so you can build automation scripts or custom operations on top of your key-value Redis store. Typically, developers use language-specific client libraries when building apps with Redis. These clients abstract Redis’ command-line interface (CLI), making it easier to work with but more work to set up.

When you’re planning to move a workload to the cloud, whether public or private, you need to select the best instance size and volume types to meet your needs. Sounds obvious, but the process is anything but.

In its DevOps 2021 survey of global IT professionals, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) found that 95% of organizations with highly successful DevOps initiatives were predominantly decentralized and purposefully becoming more so as fast as possible (see Figure 1). This decentralization of development and DevOps teams is making site reliability engineering (SRE) both critical and difficult to achieve.

In this episode of the Break Things on Purpose podcast, we celebrate Terraform's 1.0 release with Taylor Dolezal.