Redis in practice: in-memory data, caching, AI stacks and end-of-life planning.
Build a production-grade self-hosted AI agent from scratch using Docker Compose. Covers the full stack — Ollama, n8n, Flowise, Qdrant, SearXNG, Langfuse, and Redis.
Four major open source databases are hitting end-of-life milestones in 2026, and MySQL 8.0 has already crossed that line. Here's a practical, code-first look at how to audit what you're running, back it up properly, and migrate before the risk compounds.
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.
