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Christoph Stich
I work as a System Engineer at the inovex IT-Operations team. My focus is on fullfilling customers' projects and requirements at large scale server farms using open source datacenter technologies like Puppet, Foreman, Rex and Jenkins. I lead an operations team at one of our customer's sites, which means a lot of communication and organization between customer and IT-Team.

Using the command line to check redis health

Gepostet am 13. Februar 2017

von Christoph Stich

In the forth entry of our series on redis we’ll have a look at its CLI tools. The central question for today: How can we check that redis is working as expected using the command line? Weiterlesen →

Redis Sentinel: Make your dataset highly available

Gepostet am 12. September 2016

von Christoph Stich

In previous blog articles we talked about the basic Redis features and learned how to persist, backup and restore your dataset in case of a disaster scenario. Today we want to introduce you to a more complex setup. In fact, you can teach your Redis instances to be highly available for your clients. Weiterlesen →

Redis: Protect your cached data

Gepostet am 26. Juli 2016

von Christoph Stich

Welcome to our second blog article concerning the Redis caching engine. Here I want to introduce some mechanics to persist cached data on disk, pros, cons and some configuration examples. Additionally I want to describe different backup and restore strategies. If you haven’t done so already, have a look at part 1 for the basics. Weiterlesen →

Redis: More than caching

Gepostet am 12. Juli 2016

von Christoph Stich

When talking about caching and shared caching most of us would think about memcached. Memcached is lightweight, easy to configure and has a very good performance. But what happens when the cached data is a bit more important? Weiterlesen →