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What is Redis?

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What is Redis?

Why does it show up in so many system design problems?

And why do so many teams rely on it in production?

Redis is versatile.

It's worth the time to learn it well.

In this video, we focus on three ideas.

How Redis executes commands, how it stores and persists data,

and how people use it in real systems.

Let's start with what Redis is.

Redis is a single-threaded, in-memory data structure server.

This short description hides three important design choices.

First, single thread execution.

Redis processes commands one at a time in a single thread.

Strictly speaking, Redis 6 and newer added IO threads for networking,

but the actual command logic still runs sequentially.

The order is predictable.

The first request in is the first request processed.

There are no logs to reason about and no concurrent writes to the same key.

If one command blocks, every other command waits behind it.

You might ask, if Redis uses only one thread to run commands,

how does it stay fast?

Redis hides latency with batching.

Clients can bundle commands with pipelining or wrap a set of commands in a transaction.

One network roundtrip now carries many commands.

The single thread still executes each command in order,

but the socket stays busy instead of waiting for each request-response pair.

Second, Redis keeps data in RAM.

The upside is very low latency.

Redis can respond in sub-millisecond time,

even when we send hundreds of commands per second.

The downside is durability.

If the machine dies, the data in memory is gone unless we configure persistence carefully.

This trade-off is central to how teams use Redis.

We'll come back to this.

Third, Redis is a key value store that exposes data structures directly.

A value in Redis can be many things.

For example, it can be a string,

a list, a hash, a set,

a sort of set, or a stream.

The protocol is small and simple,

but Redis provides many specialized commands for each data structure.

Here is a simple example of a counter.

We call setCounter5 getCounterReturns5.

IncrementCounter bumps it atomically to 6.

Each command acts on a key.

Atomicity matters when multiple clients touch the same key.

Because Redis runs commands one at a time,

increment completes as a single atomic step.

Multiple clients incrementing the same counter won't interfere with each other.

Now let's move on to persistent and durability.

Since Redis lives in memory,

we need to plan for crashes.

Different teams make different choices.

Many teams run Redis as a pure cache with persistence turned off.

The database is the source of truth.

Rights go to the database.

Redis only stores cached results.

If Redis crashes in this setup, we lose the cache.

The application rebuilds it on demand by querying the database.

No important data is lost because we never treated Redis as the source of truth.

Some teams skip this persistence but add replicas.

The primary node handles all writes.

Replicas handle read traffic.

If the primary dies, a replica is promoted to replace it.

In this case, we may lose availability for a few seconds during failover,

but we preserve most of the cache data in memory on the replicas.

This trace this ILOverhead for memory overhead.

Each replica roughly doubles the memory footprint.

Another option is to enable RDB snapshots.

We configure Redis to take a snapshot every few minutes.

On restart, Redis loads the snapshot into memory.

This allows Redis to come back with warm data instead of an empty cache.

We accept losing the writes that happened after the last snapshot.

For a cache workload, this is usually a reasonable trade-off because the cache warms up quite quickly.

When Redis holds data we cannot afford to lose,

we turn on the append-only file.

A common configuration is append only yes with append fsync every sec.

Redis appends each write to a log on disk.

The operating system flushes buffer write to disk roughly once per second.

In a crash, we lose at most 1 second of data.

We can configure fsync after every command for a stronger durability.

But that is much slower and has a big impact on throughput.

Most teams avoid that unless the dataset is small and latency is not critical.

In practice, the real question is whether Redis should hold critical state at all

or whether it should just be used as a cache.

Many teams keep critical data in a durable database and rely on Redis mainly for caching and ephemeral state.

That covers persistence.

Next, let's talk about scaling Redis.

Most Most teams start with a single Redis instance.

On decent hardware, a single node can handle a large number of operations per second for many workloads.

When reads become the bottleneck,

the first scaling step is to add replicas.

The primary node accepts all writes.

Repicas serve read traffic.

This increases read throughput, but write throughput is still capped by the primary.

When write volume grows too large for a single instance,

many teams adopt client-side sharding.

We run multiple independent Redis instances.

The application hashes each key and picks a Redis node based on the hash.

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For a static cluster, a simple modular hash works.

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For dynamic scaling, libraries such as Katama use consistent hashing so that adding or removing a node does not reshuffle all keys.

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Each node here is independent.

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There is no cross-node coordination and no distributed protocol between Redis servers.

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So we treat Redis as a cache,

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a node failure simply causes cache misses for the subset of keys that live on that node until the cache repopulates.

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Redis cluster also exists as an option,

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it provides automatic sharding and failover.

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But this comes with added complexity.

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Operating and debugging a Redis cluster setup is also more complex than running independent nodes.

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Because of this, many teams prefer simple client-side sharding for cache workloads

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and only adopt Redis cluster when they need its specific guarantees.

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Now let's review some common Redis workloads.

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The classic use case is caching.

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A service checks Redis before hitting the database.

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If there is a cache hit,

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we return the value immediately.

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If there is a cache miss,

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we query the database, store the result in Redis,

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and return the response to the client.

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Over time, the cache fills up.

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We need a clean up strategy.

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One approach is to set a time to live on each key.

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After the TTL expires, the key stops being returned and is cleaned up lazily.

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Another approach is to configure a memory limit and an eviction policy so that Redis evicts keys,

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for example the least recently used one, when memory is full.

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Multiple service instances can share counters through Redis.

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We use atomic increment commands on keys that represent a user,

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an IP, or an API token.

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Combined with TTLs or Lua scripts,

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we can implement various rate limiting algorithms without adding a separate coordination service.

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There are many nuances here,

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so we dedicate an entire video to this topic.

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Check the link in the description.

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So far, Redis looks like a fast key value store.

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The data structure server part becomes powerful when we look at features like SORTASET.

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Leaderboards are a common example.

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A SORTASET maintains items order by score.

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We can insert a player with a score,

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update the score when it changes,

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query the top-end players or look up a player's rank.

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These operations typically run in logarithmic time relative to the size of the set.

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This pattern generalizes well.

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You can build trending post lists,

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most active users, top sellers,

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and many other top-end ranking problems on top of Sortaset.

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Let's wrap up.

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Redis is fast, predictable, and versatile.

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Single-threaded execution keeps behavior simple to reason about.

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In-memory storage delivers very low latency.

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Native data structures such as hashes and Sortasets solve problems that would be clunky to implement in a relational database.

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Most teams start with a single instance.

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Ad replicas will read traffic and availability,

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then use client-side sharding when they need more write throughput.

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When we understand these trade-offs around execution,

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persistence, and data structures, Redis fits cleanly into our system designs.

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