Intro to Redis — with Docker Compose

Edward Cernera
5 min readNov 29, 2020
Redis and Docker Compose

What is Redis?

Redis is a high throughput, in-memory key-value store used for fast lookup. It supports common data structures such as strings, lists, sets, hashes, and more (redislabs). Since Redis stores data in-memory, it does not face the same read/write (I/O) limitations and performance issues that databases face with hard disks. Although Redis stores and accesses data in-memory, it can…

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Edward Cernera

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