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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 14/01/2026

I'm not saying specialized vector databases will disappear. But they'll survive at the extremes. For most applications, native vector support inside a broadly adopted database (cough, cough… like @redis.io) will win simply because it reduces the number of moving parts.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 14/01/2026

In the real world, teams don't fail because vector search is 5–10% slower. They fail because integration is hard, brittle, and expensive.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 14/01/2026

Eventually, we spend years trying to glue everything back to the databases we were already running. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 14/01/2026

First, we build a specialized system. Then we hire and retain specialized teams *because* of them. Soon enough, those teams need additional governance just to keep integrations working.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 14/01/2026

I've watched this cycle repeat for years: JSON, full-text search, spatial data, analytics—and now vectors.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 14/01/2026

Vectors don't live in isolation. They live with filters, joins, permissions, transactions, updates, and analytics. The moment you move into a separate system, you're not "scaling better." You're signing up for data duplication, consistency problems, and fragmented query logic.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 14/01/2026

I just read this excellent thread on `/r/vectordatabase` debating Vector DBs vs native vector support inside general-purpose databases, and honestly, I think we already know how this story ends. 🧶 www.reddit.com/r/vectordata...

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 17/12/2025

Do you want to learn how to implement the refresh-ahead caching pattern with Redis Data Integration (RDI)? I wrote a blog post that illustrates this point exactly. 👉🏻 Read the full blog post here: dev.to/redis/from-p...

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 24/11/2025

I published a blog post sharing a data-driven framework that helps developers determine whether using a vector database is a good idea. 👉🏻 riferrei.com/to-vector-or...

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 18/11/2025

Companies that have their own DNS infrastructure today... 😅 #DNS #Reliability #Cloudflare #HugOps #ThisIsFine

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 10/11/2025

If you've ever been in this situation, give me a 👍🏻 in this post and share your experience in the comments.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/10/2025

I just released version v0.7.4 of SRClient, a Go client for Schema Registry. This is a library that I created almost 6 years ago, and it is still helpful for Go developers building apps for Kafka. github.com/riferrei/src...

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Golang Client for Schema Registry. Contribute to riferrei/srclient development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 07/10/2025

How many of you have been in a meeting where someone said, "We should use a vector database for this!" and everyone nodded, but you wondered... should we really? If this is you, then join me on October 13th at the @allthingsopen.bsky.social conference.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 25/09/2025

Developers will understand.

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All Things Open @allthingsopen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We're excited to have Ricardo Ferreira (@riferrei.com), Developer Relations Lead for Redis, presenting "To Vector, or not to Vector, that is the Question" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/to-...

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 28/08/2025

Hey there, Redis is hiring developer advocates 🥑 in London and San Francisco. If that person is you... well... even better! Reach out if you're interested!

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 22/08/2025

If you're a software engineer seriously looking for ways to improve your coding experience, check out these two extensions.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 21/08/2025

magine you get to your hotel lobby and see this. Would you believe that person is only having a meeting with their teammates? 😅 #DevRel #DevRelRoadWarrior

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 19/08/2025

Come to the Redis Released event in San Francisco. My friends David Patlut and Sallie Gamboa from the education team at Redis created a great workshop that will be offered to attendees for free. You know what else is free? The registration:

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 19/08/2025

💡 Do you want to learn how to develop these things with Redis?

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 19/08/2025

Another interesting usage of Redis with LLMs is as the memory layer of your agents, so that they can "remember" details from your users within the same thread (a.k.a short-term memory) and between threads (a.k.a long-term memory).

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 19/08/2025

One way is using semantic caching with Redis. By storing answered LLM calls in memory and using vector embeddings to find semantically similar queries, you can serve cached answers to users really fast, even if their prompt is not precisely the same as the original question.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 19/08/2025

LLMs' fanciness and increasing intelligence don't change the reality—ultimately, they're just API calls. As such, they suffer from the same problems as API calls, such as throttling, timeouts, and exponential delays. 🔌 ⚡️ ➡️ But you can use clever ways to make LLM calls faster.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 18/08/2025

🎤 Great lineup of speakers, including legends of the AI space ⚡️ Get to know what is coming on Redis, the most loved database

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 18/08/2025

➡️ Here is why you should come to Redis Released: 🎉 It's a free event. And key, there is a happy hour at the end. 🧠 Free hands-on workshops on building AI agents with memory. 💻 Bring your laptop + your questions to engineers at Redis. More below the video 🧶 👇🏻 😉

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 15/08/2025

It is with a heavy heart that I print k1's value 😢

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 15/08/2025

"It's almost impossible to create good videos while you're on the road." ➡️ Me: "Hold my beer." #DevRelLife #DevRelOnTheRoad #Video #VideoSetup

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 09/08/2025

You may have seen the multiple variants of the Jet2 Holiday Meme at this point, right? Well, me too. I've watched so much that I've decided to do something useful with it. See below how to implement RAG with Redis using this meme 😅 #Redis #RAG #Jet2HolidayMeme #VectorDatabases

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 04/08/2025

This weekend, I wrote a blog post explaining how to design a data system that handles entities with multiple attributes and complex relationships with #Redis #VectorSets. The result? Simpler design, simpler code, simpler maintenance. ➡️ Check it out: dev.to/redis/design...

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Designing Vector Embeddings: A Finding Nemo Journey Through Redis Vector Sets

Introduction Every software engineer has faced this challenge: how do you model complex,...

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Guy Royse @guy.dev · 31/07/2025

Everybody's putting AI in their apps. They're stringing APIs together and sending the results down to the browser. But those APIs are expensive, the round trips are long, and there's a lot of data being exposed. Maybe there's a better way? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBaG...

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Run AI in the browser - faster, cheaper, and private

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Raphael De Lio @raphaeldelio.dev · 31/07/2025

Unlike traditional caching that requires exact query matches, semantic caching understands the meaning behind queries and can return cached responses for semantically similar questions medium.com/redis-with-r... cc @redis.io @danvega.dev @bsbodden.bsky.social @dashaun.com @starbuxman.joshlong.com

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Semantic Caching with Spring AI & Redis

Build intelligent semantic caching with Spring AI and Redis to dramatically reduce LLM API costs. Cache responses by meaning, not exact…

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

If you're building anything with vectors, semantic search, or trying to make your AI apps not crawl at scale, this is worth your Wednesday afternoon.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

The lineup of speakers is also solid. It includes folks from Weights & Biases, plus founders from Tavily, Augment Code, and Mem0 sharing how they're using Redis for AI in production.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

🎤 Sam Crowder, head of LangGraph at LangChain, will be speaking. Listen to what this successful open-source project is planning to do for you.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

💻 Bring your laptop + your questions. Redis engineers will help you debug things on the spot. Because we love to squeeze that extra millisecond down.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

🛠️ Watch live demos of hashtag#LangCache, our new semantic caching service.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

🧠 Hands-on workshops on building AI agents with memory. Learn how to build chatbots that finally remember things.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

➡️ But wait, there is more:

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

We're dropping our fastest Redis version yet, plus some AI infra that makes devs' lives building with AI easier than ever. If you're serious about real-time data and AI apps, that's reason enough to join. But if not, here's a secret—it's a free event, with lunch *and* happy hour.

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Ricardo Ferreira @riferrei.com · 31/07/2025

🚀 Hey, San Francisco developers! Redis Released is happening on September 4th, and honestly, I'm dooply excited about it! #redis #redisreleased #langchain #ai #genai #developers #sanfrancisco

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