3 articles tagged with Redis.
Both are fast in-memory stores, and both get picked by habit more than by requirements. Here is what actually differs and when each one is the right call.
A practitioner's guide to rate limiting algorithms, where to enforce them, and how to make them work across many instances with Redis.
Three caching patterns, three failure modes. The one we use most, the one that bit us, and the rule that decides which pattern fits which workload.
