Microsoft Azure Redis Cache is based on the popular open source Redis Cache. It gives you access to a secure, dedicated Redis cache, managed by Microsoft. A cache created using Azure Redis Cache is accessible from any application within Microsoft Azure.

1. Increase Performance of Azure
Web App with Redis Cache
Chourouk HJAIEJ
DX Technical Evangelist Intern at Microsoft Tunisia
t-chhjae@microsoft.com

6. CACHING SOLUTIONS
6
Memcached
Coherence
Couchbase
Redis
SharedCache
AppFabric
NCache
StateServer

8. strings
hashes lists sets sorted sets bitmaps
hyperloglogs

11. Redis cluster Redis persistence Azure
Virtual Network

13. Typical Caching Pattern
Web Tier
Storage
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Q
L
Data
Data

14. Web Tier
Cache
Data
Storage
SQL
- High Throughput
- Low Consistent Latency
50% : <3ms
99% : <10ms
Azure
Region
Data

15. 50% : <3ms
99% : <10ms
• Pings sent via redis-benchmark.exe
• Client and Cache in same region
• Lightly loaded Cache

17. • Monitor in the portal.
• Set eviction policies.
• Set Alerts.
• Monitor using Redis tools eg. redis-cli.exe

19. • Provisioning Redis Cache
• Monitoring/ Diagnostics
• Alerts
• ASP.NET Session & Output Cache Providers