Imagine you cook daily, but your essential containers are placed on high shelves, making them hard to reach. To work faster, you move them closer to your workspace.

Redis works the same way — it stores frequently accessed data closer to your app using fast in-memory storage.

🔥 Redis Superpowers

Session Management: Store user sessions for scalability and performance.
Pub/Sub Systems: Enable real-time communication for chat, alerts, and events.
Queues: Manage background tasks with push/pop functionality.
Caching: Avoid expensive DB calls with patterns like Cache-Aside and Write-Through.

🗂 Session Management with Redis

app.use(session({
  store: new RedisStore({ client }),
  secret: 'your-secret-key',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: true,
}));

📢 Real-Time Pub/Sub

Use Redis for chat systems or live notifications by leveraging its Pub/Sub features.

📋 Queues: Task Scheduling

async function enqueue(data) {
  await redis.lpush('myQueue', JSON.stringify(data));
}

async function dequeue() {
  const data = await redis.rpop('myQueue');
  return data ? JSON.parse(data) : null;
}

⚡ Caching Patterns

Cache-Aside: Check cache first, fallback to DB, then populate cache.
Read-Through: Cache fetches data on its own when key is missing.
Write-Through: Every write goes to both DB and cache.
Write-Behind: Write to cache first, then DB asynchronously.

🚀 Example: Cache-Aside with Redis

async function getOrSetCache(key, fetchFunction) {
  const cachedData = await redisClient.get(key);
  if (cachedData) {
    console.log('Cache hit');
    return JSON.parse(cachedData);
  }
  console.log('Cache miss');
  const freshData = await fetchFunction();
  await redisClient.set(key, JSON.stringify(freshData), { EX: 3600 });
  return freshData;
}

📦 Use It in Your App

app.get('/api/data', async (req, res) => {
  const data = await getOrSetCache('myData', async () => {
    return { message: 'Hello from database!' };
  });
  res.json(data);
});

Level up your backend architecture by leveraging Redis where it matters most!

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