What is Redis? The In-Memory Database I Used for Years Before I Understood It

Redis is an in-memory data structure store used as a cache, message broker, session store, rate limiter, and real-time leaderboard engine. I dropped it into production as a cache before I understood what it actually was. Here is what it is, how it works, and what it does well.

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