The Beauty of Simplicity: Mastering Database Design Using Redis

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years, you probably know how fantastic Redis is. It combines the simplicity of a key-value store with the power of data structures to give you a Swiss Army-like API for doing amazing things with your data.

But what if we took our love for Redis a step further?

In this presentation we will talk through the lessons I learned when attempting to use Redis as my only datastore for an application. We will also look at how these lessons can be applied to your decision making in all of your data-driven applications, regardless of the datastore.