Redis Labs Sees 400 Percent Growth in Annual Redis Conference

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - May 13, 2016) - Redis Labs, the home of Redis, announced a 400 percent increase of attendees at the second annual RedisConf, the world's largest gathering of Redis users, developers, and experts.

Held at Mission Bay Conference Center on May 10 and May 11, RedisConf featured over 40 speakers and 30 breakout sessions along with the announcement of the Redis Modules System and the Redis Labs Module Hub. Redis Labs' executives and Redis creator, Salvatore Sanfilippo, were joined by customers and industry experts to highlight the game-changing and transformative trends driving developers and enterprises' database decisions around open source technology, including:

• A Hacker's Guide To a New Era in Redis
• Distributed Application Logic in Ruby with Redis
• Real-time recommendations using WebSockets and Redis
• Background Tasks in Node
• Redis on NVMe SSD
• Redis operation with Persistent Memory
• SSH I/O Streaming Via Redis-based Persistent Message Queue
• Walmart and IBM Revisit the Linear Road Benchmark
• Back your App with MySQL & Redis, the Cloud Foundry Way
• Managing Redis with Kubernetes

Additional sessions were conducted by:

• Brian Leonard, TaskRabbit
• Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Netflix
• Jakub Schmiegel, Intel
• Kelsey Hightower, Google
• Mani Tadayon, Apple
• Rahul Varma, Rocket Fuel
• Roger Rea, IBM
• Tague Griffith, GoPro
• Zvika Guz, Samsung

Organized by Redis Labs, RedisConf2016 highlighted the breadth of use cases and usage of Redis in organizations of all sizes globally. Attendees had the opportunity to learn from key Redis contributors and dive deep into Redis with the experts, share knowledge and experience with community members, and network with data scientists, developers, product managers, customers and partners that are implementing Redis in their business. Other keynotes included: Salvatore Sanfilippo, Creator of Redis; Yiftach Shoolman, Redis Labs; Bill Anderson, Rackspace; Adrian Colyer, formerly Spring Source and VMware; Laura Merling, formerly SAP; Chris Richardson, Cloud Foundry.

Additionally, RedisConf2016 attendees joined hands-on sessions and workshops that addressed Redis best practices, demos and case studies.

For more information on Redis Labs and next year's RedisConf, visit: redislabs.com.

About Redis Labs
Redis Labs is the open source home and commercial provider of Redis, a database benchmarked as the world's fastest. Gartner has named the company as a Leader in its 2015 ODBMS Magic Quadrant. Redis Labs' software and service solutions power cutting edge applications with blazing fast enterprise-class Redis and are trusted by thousands of customers for high performance, seamless scalability, true high availability and best-in-class expertise. These solutions enhance popular Redis use cases such as real-time analytics, fast high-volume transactions, in-app social functionality, application job management, queuing and caching.

Redis is ranked the #1 NoSQL (and #2 database) in User Satisfaction and Market Presence by G2 Crowd, the top database technology on Docker by Datadog, the most popular NoSQL database in containers by DevOps.com and ClusterHQ, the #1 NoSQL among Top 10 Data Stores by Stackshare and both the fastest growing database since January 2013 and one of the top three NoSQL databases by DB-engines.