Redis
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Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is an open-source in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis supports strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, and more. Its in-memory nature makes it extremely fast (microsecond latency) but requires careful memory management.
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Docker
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Kubernetes
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Nginx
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