Optimizing Web Applications with Redis Cache

In this podcast episode, Shruti Patak, senior product manager at Microsoft, discusses the benefits of optimizing web applications with Redis cache. She explains that Redis is a popular open-source software that functions as a key-value data store, allowing for quick access to data stored in memory. Redis cache improves application performance by providing sub-millisecond latencies and the ability to scale horizontally. The primary use case for Redis cache is to store frequently accessed data or perform heavy read operations, making websites faster. Shruti also mentions that Redis is suitable for storing ephemeral data, such as shopping cart information, and it can be utilized as a distributed cache for sharing information among multiple services or pods in a Kubernetes cluster.