Ricardo Ferreira

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History favors boring, integrated systems over elegant architectures that are painful and costly to operate.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

From the vectordatabase community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the vectordatabase community

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...

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:

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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...

Companies that have their own DNS infrastructure today... 😅

#DNS #Reliability #Cloudflare #HugOps #ThisIsFine

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

Deploying Redis Agent Memory Server on EC2 with Terraform Learn how to deploy the Redis Agent Memory Server with Terraform

Learn how to deploy the Redis Agent Memory Server on Amazon EC2 using Terraform.

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

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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📆 When: Oct 13, 2025
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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.

💡 Tech stack:

✅ #java
✅ @langchain4j.dev
✅ #Terraform
✅ @awscloud.bsky.social

GitHub - redis-developer/my-jarvis-alexa-skill: My Jarvis is an Alexa skill that can remember and recall memories from users, providing more contextual answers. It utilizes the Redis Agent Memory Serv... My Jarvis is an Alexa skill that can remember and recall memories from users, providing more contextual answers. It utilizes the Redis Agent Memory Server as a memory layer to provide instant-like ...

If you're interested in understanding how I implemented this demo, here is the GitHub repository:

github.com/redis-develo...

An Alexa Skill that recalls all memories YouTube video by Redis

Would you like to see an AI agent implemented as an
@amazonalexa.bsky.social? Check this out:

Developers will understand.

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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-...

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

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Redis Released San Francisco Join us at Redis Released to catch our newest capabilities in Redis for AI, Redis Cloud, and open source. We’re releasing the best (read: fastest) version of Redis yet—with an AI infrastructure that helps you build & scale better agents, chatbots, and more. See how our latest releases are shaping the new AI stack —and why now is the time to start building with it.

📍 The Midway San Francisco, September 4th, 2025

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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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