I wanted to share the lessons I've learned as a sort of basic guide to writing modules. The documentation of the API is very good, but also very long. So take this guide as a TL;DR guide.

Redis is a key-value in memory data store typically used for caches and other such mechanisms to speed up web applications. We however store all our data in Redis as our primary database.

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It is my absolute pleasure to present you with this guest post by Brandur Leach, redis-cell‘s author and winner of the 1st place in the Redis Modules Hackathon. The module is an efficient implementation of a rate limiter that can be used, for example, to…