Web Served is nearly over! This is the last regular part in the series, and so I want to kick it up a notch—several notches, actually!—and get away from installing tired old PHP applications. Instead, ...

Redis is an open-source, in-memory database that offers plenty of features and more than enough performance to power your enterprise-level app or service. Recently, I wrote about deploying Redis on a ...

Like many, you might think of Redis as only a cache. That point of view is out of date. Essentially, Redis is a NoSQL in-memory data structure store that can persist on disk. It can function as a ...

Relational databases are the cornerstone of many applications today, but users may hit some significant performance limitations imposed by disk-based storage. The most effective mitigation strategy is ...

Transactional cloud databases come in all shapes and sizes, from simple key-value stores to planet-scale distributed relational databases. Here’s how to choose the right cloud database for your ...