How Freshworks Scaled from 30 to 500 Million Requests Per Day

[01:08] - Can you tell us something about Groww as a company and what kind of business it is involved in?[02:13] - Can you tell us about your customer base?[03:00] - Can you tell us more about the overall architecture and technologies you use?[03:51] - During our initial conversation, you mentioned that you moved from Google Memorystore  to Managed Redis Enterprise solution. What was the primary reason for switching to Redis Enterprise?[05:00]  - You talked about the microservices architecture? Can you explain how well your overall tech stack looks like, whether it was monolithic or transitioning to microservices?[06:00]  - Can you tell us about the tool that you used for the CI-CD platform?[07:21]  - In our initial discussion, you shared that you are using Istio? Can you share with our listeners what Istio is and how Redis fits into Istio?[08:50]  - Were you only using Redis as a caching or also as a primary database?[09:45]  - Can you share the challenges that you faced with the existing RDMS?[10:34] - What do you like the most about Redis as a company as well as technology?[11:56] - How was the learning path for new developers [12:34] - What do you want to do next with Redis?

[01:02] Please introduce yourself and share your Redis experience?[02:49] Is Onto11 Fantasy Sports Mobile Gaming platform limited to India?[04:20] How has COVID19 impacted the Oneto11  gaming platform?[08:19] Can you brief us about  the tech stack that was powering the OneTo11 gaming platform?[10:15]  What is your deployment environment for Redis? Also, how did you select it?[10:40]  You shared the challenges you faced on the first day of announcing this platform in September 2020.  Can you deep dive into why service went disrupted and how you overcome the challenge? [14:10]  In our initial discussion, you shared an interesting story about the challenges you faced with the leaderboard? Can you brief our listeners about it?[15:38]  You talked about RediSearch and RedisGraph as a possible Redis module that you are planning to leverage? May I know why you are planning to choose these two modules and what advantages you think can power your Oneto11 Gaming platform? [17:15]  Looking ahead, what is your plan with Redis? Is there any Redis Enterprise module are you planning to use in the near future?[19:00] What is the differentiator of Oneto11 to other Fantasy Sports Gaming apps? What makes Oneto11 so special?References:https://oneto11.com/Redis Enterprise Software Leaderboards

[:30] Tell us a little bit about yourself? [1:00]What have you been doing to stay busy during this COVID world? [1:30]You can talk about Walmart and the role you are working on?[2:15] When did you get to know about Redis for the first time?[3:20] Which are the most recent Redis modules you worked on and why did you choose it?[6:05] What type of Infrastructure did you use for Kubernetes?[7:10] I was going through your medium blog post titled “Redis Centric Fraud Detection System” where you mentioned that “AI plays a huge part in Fraud detection and Redis has extensive support for that.”. Can you elaborate?[9:50] Apart from real-time Ad Fraud detection, what are the other exciting things around Redis you are working on?[11:50] Which feature would you love to see in Redis?[12:30] What developer tools do you enjoy using the most? Relevant Links:Repo - Building Real Time Fraud Detection Application using RedisBlog - Redis Centric Real-Time Fraud DetectionBlog - Introducing the Redis Data Source Plug-in for Grafana

[0:40] Tell us a little bit about yourself? In this COVID situation what stuff are you doing at home to make life interesting?Which book are you reading?[1:45] Tell us about HybrowLabs? What do you work on there? [2:45] You have been quite active in the Pune Developer Community (PDC)and have been busy delivering talks around Redis? Tell us what motivates you in sharing these knowledge?[3:50] When did you get to know about Redis for the first time?[5:15] Last December, you co-authored a blog around “Serverless Development with AWS Lambda and Redis Enterprise Cloud” with Tugdual Grall and I really found it very interesting? For anyone who hasn't read the blog, can you briefly describe the complete theme of the blog post?[7:15] Which are your favorite Redis modules and what kind of use cases have you been leveraging for?[8:35] Do you have plans to write any module? [11:45] Which feature would you love to see in Redis?[12:45] Can you share what kind of book it is and how it is going to benefit the community?[15:25] What developer tools do you enjoy using the most throughout your day-to-day? Relevant Links:Blog - Serverless Development with AWS Lambda and Redis Enterprise Cloud | Redis Labshttps://www.hybrowlabs.comhttps://medium.com/sellezely

[1:15] In this COVID situation, what stuff are you doing at home to make life interesting?[2:00] Can you share your overall experience around the hackathon?[3:30] What was your mission and inspiration to participate in the Hackathon?[5:00] Can brief the listeners about Data Science and why it would require a NoSQL database?[6:00] Let us talk about your experience around Redis. When did you use Redis for the first time?[9:00] Can you tell us how Redis fits into Data Science? What kind of problems does Redis solve for data scientists like you?[13:00] Can you tell us how you are leveraging Redis tool or Modules for your data science projectsYou can touch upon RedisGears?How are you leveraging RedisGraph?[14:00] Which feature would you love to see in Redis?[17:00] What developer tools do you enjoy using the most? Relevant LinksRedisConf 2021Applied Knowledge Systems RepoApplied Knowledge Systems Demo Team AcknowledgmentThank you to Brian Wachanga (https://github.com/mcwachanga) for building such a great UX to the NLP pipeline and to Gavid D'mello (https://github.com/GavinDmello) for participation in Redis Beyond Cache hackathon.   

[1:10] Can you tell us about MyTeam11 as a company?[1:50] Tell us about MyTeam11 fantasy sport gaming platform?[2:50] Impact of COVID on this gaming platform?[5:25] What is your deployment environment for Redis? [7:50] What programming languages do you use? [9:00] How often do you deploy in production? [9:25] Are you using Redis both as a caching solution as well as primary database?[10:15] What is your future plan with Redis?[11:25] What made you move from Open Source Redis to Redis Enterprise Cloud? Relevant Links:MyTeam11 Case StudyRedis Enterprise CloudCommunity Knowledge ForumRedis UniversityYourStory - At AWS Cloud Day 2020 in Jaipur YourStory - How AWS is helping MyTeam 11 launch new featuresYourStory - AWS Startup CXO Mixer 2020

[1:15]  Rajeev, can you tell us something about Razorpay as a company and what kind of business it is involved in?[2:15] Rajeev, Can you tell us more about the overall architecture and technologies you use?[3:30] Hemanth, what kind of challenges did you face with your existing tech stack? [5:10] Hemanth, what compelled you to switch to Redis and include it in your tech stack?[6:25] Hemanth, Can you brief about Redis Bloom Filter to our listeners who are pretty new to this?[9:20] ] Hemanth, What other Redis Use case are you using? [9:50] Hemanth, Can you drive deeper into the Rate Limiting side of things? [11:15] Rajeev, what are you the proudest of?[14:00]: Rajeev, What do you like the most about Redis as a company as well as technology?[15:35]: Rajeev, what do you want to do next with Redis?Relevant Links:Rate limitingBloom filtersRedisBloomRedis Mutex locks

[1:30] Vijay can you tell us about Freshworks?[3:00] What have you done with Redis?  [4:00] How do you choose technology/databases?[8:45] How do you deploy?[12:45] Tell us more about your “main Redis” use case[14:50] Do you have an idea of operations per second? [17:45] Did you do the migration live? [18:05] How does Freshworks leverage the Bloom filter? [17:00] What made you migrate from Elastic Cache?[20:50] Any other use case you want to highlight?[23:25] Why Freshworks uses the Lua script[24:50] What to come next?[26:10] What are you the proudest of in your project?[27:30] How do you keep your developers engage?Relevant Links:Freshworks.comFreshworks Use CaseBasic Rate Limiting Best PracticesRedisBloom  

[1:45] Yossi - Can you tell us about the thinking behind the Redis governance model and Core Team? How were members chosen and what are their roles and responsibilities?[5:05] Yossi - What is the mission and vision ahead for Redis?[9:00] Oran - Today Redis holds 430+ contributors and 240+ releases over GITHUB.  How do you manage to get it together and work towards the team's vision and roadmap?How does each of you manage the contribution as a team? How often does the team meet? Are there processes to the team's workflow? Contributors may come and go as they please. Looking at such a large Redis community, how do you ensure that the new contributors know how to engage successfully?[14:35] Itamar - Can you tell us something about the Redis Community? What makes it unique? [19:00] Yossi - Tell us about the biggest challenge for Redis today in terms of both as a technology as well as community? How do you plan to overcome it?[27:05] Itamar - What would be your advice to developers who really want to contribute back to Redis Open Source––where is the most need?[33:15] Yossi - What are you and the rest of the team working on and what is to come in the next release?[38:00] Yossi - you have been the lead for the Redis Raft project. Can you brief us about this project? Project description?Where is it heading?Relevant Links:Redis.ioRedis GitHubRedis DB Google Group

[1:50] Can you tell us where you have been using Redis as a cache on your projects, and what were the outcome benefits?[4:40] In addition to cache, Redis is also a perfect fit for  ecommerce “Cart”, can you tell us more about it?[9:45] Example dealing with “black friday”, have you seen and deployed specific things for these kinds of events? Any tips?[11:10] So far we have talked about very common use cases for Redis: make the application faster, more scalable and resilient, do you have other use cases that you would like to discuss?[12:35] You are mentioning, RediSearch, can you tell us more about it, and how you have used it?[19:00] Do you see other complementary technologies, Streams? [21:00] How does kubernetes align with Redis?  [21:30] How do you work on your planning and testing leading up to BlackFriday?Relevant Links:https://redis.iohttps://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/https://oss.redislabs.com/redisjson/https://redislabs.com/modules/redis-gears/https://redislabs.com/solutions/industries/retail/