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Redis Complete Guide: Caching, Queues & Pub/Sub (2026)
Short summary
A comprehensive Redis guide covering setup via Docker, caching patterns, session storage, rate limiting, leaderboards, and distributed locks using Node.js and TypeScript with ioredis. Includes code examples for strings, hashes, sorted sets, and pub/sub primitives. Recommends Upstash for serverless and ioredis with managed instances for production.
- •Covers Redis setup through production patterns with Node.js and TypeScript
- •Code examples for strings, hashes, sorted sets, and distributed locks
- •Recommends Upstash for serverless, ioredis for self-hosted production
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