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Build on Momento: IoT device status

Learn how to use Momento Cache to store, update, and track the latest data from your IoT devices.

Allen Helton

Hello World! Introducing the Momento Web SDK

Say hello to instant notifications and easy cache access like never before. With our new Web SDK, developers can effortlessly integrate powerful real-time features, bringing faster performance and new capabilities to your end users.

Now available: Momento Bulk Writer

Populate your Momento Cache from a bulk data source with this open source tool.

Build on Momento: Instant messaging

Need instant messaging but don’t know where to start? We have you covered.

Easy mode: Drop Momento right into your Redis app

We're making it easy to pull the plug on Redis cluster management.

Announcing AWS PrivateLink connectivity for Momento

Contact Momento to enable AWS PrivateLink connectivity for your high-compliance, high-scale workloads.

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Ellery Addington-White

Momento Cache vs. Redis: the key differences

Find out all the aspects of Momento Cache that set it apart from Redis.

Momento Console is here

Now you can manage caches and acquire API tokens with a simple web interface.

Seamlessly caching MongoDB Atlas (it's automagic!)

Accelerate MongoDB Atlas with caching—without missing a beat.

How caching fits into your Amazon Aurora scaling strategy

Scaling Amazon Aurora by caching reads doesn't have to be complicated.

Momento just got more powerful: Introducing Topics

A simply priced, fully serverless event messaging system ready for massive scale.

Build on Momento: Event routing with Momento Topics

Find out how simple it is to introduce events into your architecture with Momento Topics.

Event-Driven Architecture

Real World Serverless Podcast: Kirk Kirkconnell

Listen in for interesting discussion about single-table design and why scale-to-zero is so important to the serverless vision.

Build on Momento: How we made instant messaging for Acorn Hunt

Learn how we used Momento collection data types to build an in-game chat.

Improve app performance by caching at every layer

Say goodbye to slow apps! Learn how to cache your app from top to bottom to achieve ultimate performance.

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Major release: v1.0 of the Momento Go client

Check out some highlights from our Go client SDK—and take it for a spin!

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Ellery Addington-White

Momento flush cache is a modern convenience

Flushing your cache doesn’t have to be slow or dangerous.

Build on Momento: Tips and tricks for a lightning-fast game leaderboard

Learn how to build a game leaderboard four different ways with sorted sets from Momento Cache.

Distributed SQL, distributed cache

A dynamic duo: TiDB and Momento Cache

Boost your stats with our new increment API

Real-time counts and rate limiting have never been easier.

Major release: v1.0 of the Momento Python client

Check out some highlights from our Python SDK—and take it for a spin!

Big news, India: We’re here!

We just extended our availability to a fourth AWS region: ap-south-1 (Mumbai)!

We're back with another collection data type: Sorted sets!

Add another powerful tool to your caching strategy with sorted sets.

What Is Serverless Podcast

Allen Helton and Khawaja Shams dive head first into the deep end to discuss the true meaning of serverless and why some of the new releases we see today are pushing the wrong message.

Major release: v1.0 release of the Momento Node.js Client!

Check out some highlights from our node.js client SDK–and take it for a spin!

Did someone say collection data types? Oh, we did!

Learn how to use lists, sets, and dictionary collection data types.

Customer-led growth: Adding collection data types to Momento

This new release represents another way customer obsession comes to life at Momento.

Maximize cost savings and scalability with an optimized DynamoDB secondary index

Understand projection and metering. Forget GSI overloading.

Software Daily Podcast

Alex DeBrie and Khawaja Shams dive deep into serverless, caching, and the hardest problems in distributed systems.

Which flavor of DynamoDB secondary index should you pick?

Unlock the power of local and global secondary indexes.

You’re asking “why serverless?” Let’s talk!

There’s a whole pillowcase of reasons why serverless is worth it.

Database caching: Improved hit rates courtesy of DynamoDB Streams

We used DynamoDB Streams to make Momento Cache even better.

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Ellery Addington-White

Can I get that software in blue? Podcast

Learn about Momento Cache and our methods for bringing it to market.

Database caching: Outdoing DAX with the serverless solution DynamoDB deserves

Don’t let a serverfull cache hold your database back.

Database caching: Momento Cache is the easiest way to cache DynamoDB

Momento delivers transparent database caching for DynamoDB where DAX falls short for developers.

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Ellery Addington-White

Better together: serverless and multi-cloud

Decrease operational complexity and increase portability at the same time.

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Ellery Addington-White

Fascinating facts about facades at CBS Sports

Early investment pays off by enabling rapid modernization of legacy infrastructure with a serverless cache.

What really matters in DynamoDB data modeling?

Spoiler: it’s not really about the number of tables.

Reducing cloud infrastructure cost is easier than you think

Modify your backend caching strategy and cut your cloud infrastructure cost by 50%.

Fighting off faux-serverless bandits with the true definition of serverless

Let’s hold “serverless” services accountable to what that really means.

Major release: v1.0 of the Momento .NET client

Check out some highlights from our .NET client SDK—and take it for a spin!

Shockingly simple: Tuning Momento’s .NET cache client

Learn How we optimized our .NET gRPC client so you don’t have to.

Effortless caching reducing MongoDB operations

Free up your database to focus on transactional and analytics work.

Moving your bugs forward in time

Invest in a maintainable codebase. Future you and the next engineer will thank you for it.

Using a cache to accelerate DynamoDB (or replace it)

DynamoDB is a rock-solid database for high-volume applications, but caching can make it even better.

We built a serverless cache you can add to your stack before lunch

With the public launch, our founders reflect on everything that’s gone into Momento.

How a centralized cache elevates serverless applications

Boost performance, bypass service limits, and save time and money by incorporating a centralized cache into your solution.

A spooky tale of overprovisioning with Amazon DynamoDB and Redis

Don’t let overprovisioning result in a caching bill nightmare!

6 common caching design patterns to execute your caching strategy

Caching is powerful—but caching design patterns are not one-size-fits-all.

Oops, Momento ate 98% of my GCP Cloud Run and Firestore latencies!

Serverless caching makes it easy to reduce your Cloud Run and Firestore latencies.

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Ellery Addington-White

3 crucial caching choices: Where, when, and how

The right questions determine the right caching strategy.

Shockingly simple: Tuning Momento’s Python cache client

How we optimized our Python gRPC client so you don’t have to

Faster APIs, faster developers: API Gateway custom authorizers

How to add a custom authorizer and reduce API latencies with remote caching.

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Ellery Addington-White

Complicated pricing is not serverless

Momento is serverless all the way down to how you pay for it.

Ellery Addington-White

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Ellery Addington-White

Exceptions are bugs

Learn how Momento has adopted a philosophy about exceptions in a JVM language.

Shockingly simple: Tuning the Momento JavaScript cache client

We optimized our node.js gRPC client so you don't have to.

Cut the caching clutter: understanding cache types

Clarify your caching options with this straightforward guide.

Open Source Startup Podcast

Learn more about how Twitter's open source caching framework empowers Momento Cache.

Simple. The way cloud pricing should be.

You don’t need to be lost in a pricing maze.

Think before you cache

Caching has implications. Read this before you take the leap to ensure you're making the right caching decision.

OpenTelemetry: Tips to navigate the sea of observability options

OpenTelemetry makes for a flexible and vendor-neutral observability pipeline, but there is more to the story.

The dark art of multi-tenancy

Maximizing utilization while maintaining isolation feels like a magic trick. DynamoDB shows how to pull it off.

Shockingly simple: Cache clients that do the hard work for you

Momento is hyper focused on an incredible developer experience—server side and client side.

Oops, Momento ate 60% of my Lambda latencies!

Accelerate your app in minutes with a serverless cache.

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Ellery Addington-White

Stop settling for almost serverless

Holding your full stack to the serverless standard is possible right now.

The biggest miss in your cache hit rate

Cache hit rate alone creates cognitive bias—and bad customer experience. Cache miss rate can help.

Finally, a serverless cache that delivers on the promise of the cloud era

It's time to demand more from your cache.

Making Pelikan fly on Arm: Diving deeper into our adventures with Tau T2A VMs

Discover how Momento tripled throughput on Google's Arm-based VMs with simple optimizations and zero code changes.

4 tips for building high-performance systems

Keep these best practices in mind when performance is primary.

Turbocharging Pelikan Cache on Google Cloud’s latest Arm-based T2A VMs

Momento exceeded throughput and latency goals for its serverless cache by 25% with Google's latest Arm-based T2A VMs.

Real World Serverless Podcast: Khawaja Shams

The only piece missing from going fully serverless was cache—until now.

Serverless Cache: The missing piece to go fully serverless

Cloud architectures are progressing to serverless first designs and its time for caches to join the progression.

Why tail latencies matter

For highly scaled, distributed applications, it is critical to implement performance solutions that involve monitoring tail latency.

Engineering Founders Podcast

How do founders know when it’s time to pivot? And how do you make sure your team is on board with the new direction?

Memcached vs. Redis: When scalability and reliability matter

For organizations looking to produce highly scalable, distributed software, there are two principal in-memory data storage solutions: Memcached and Redis.

Momento just got more powerful: Introducing Topics

Easy mode: Drop Momento right into your Redis app

Build on Momento: IoT device status

Build on Momento: IoT device status

Hello World! Introducing the Momento Web SDK

Now available: Momento Bulk Writer

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Build on Momento: IoT device status

Hello World! Introducing the Momento Web SDK

Now available: Momento Bulk Writer

Build on Momento: Instant messaging

Easy mode: Drop Momento right into your Redis app

Announcing AWS PrivateLink connectivity for Momento

Momento Cache vs. Redis: the key differences

Momento Console is here

Seamlessly caching MongoDB Atlas (it's automagic!)

How caching fits into your Amazon Aurora scaling strategy

Momento just got more powerful: Introducing Topics

Build on Momento: Event routing with Momento Topics

Real World Serverless Podcast: Kirk Kirkconnell

Build on Momento: How we made instant messaging for Acorn Hunt

Improve app performance by caching at every layer

Major release: v1.0 of the Momento Go client

Momento flush cache is a modern convenience

Build on Momento: Tips and tricks for a lightning-fast game leaderboard

Distributed SQL, distributed cache

Boost your stats with our new increment API

Major release: v1.0 of the Momento Python client

Big news, India: We’re here!

We're back with another collection data type: Sorted sets!

What Is Serverless Podcast

Major release: v1.0 release of the Momento Node.js Client!

Did someone say collection data types? Oh, we did!

Customer-led growth: Adding collection data types to Momento

Maximize cost savings and scalability with an optimized DynamoDB secondary index

Software Daily Podcast

Which flavor of DynamoDB secondary index should you pick?

You’re asking “why serverless?” Let’s talk!

Database caching: Improved hit rates courtesy of DynamoDB Streams

Can I get that software in blue? Podcast

Database caching: Outdoing DAX with the serverless solution DynamoDB deserves

Database caching: Momento Cache is the easiest way to cache DynamoDB

Better together: serverless and multi-cloud

Fascinating facts about facades at CBS Sports

What really matters in DynamoDB data modeling?

Reducing cloud infrastructure cost is easier than you think

Fighting off faux-serverless bandits with the true definition of serverless

Major release: v1.0 of the Momento .NET client

Shockingly simple: Tuning Momento’s .NET cache client

Effortless caching reducing MongoDB operations

Moving your bugs forward in time

Using a cache to accelerate DynamoDB (or replace it)

We built a serverless cache you can add to your stack before lunch

How a centralized cache elevates serverless applications

A spooky tale of overprovisioning with Amazon DynamoDB and Redis

6 common caching design patterns to execute your caching strategy

Oops, Momento ate 98% of my GCP Cloud Run and Firestore latencies!

3 crucial caching choices: Where, when, and how

Shockingly simple: Tuning Momento’s Python cache client

Faster APIs, faster developers: API Gateway custom authorizers

Complicated pricing is not serverless

Exceptions are bugs

Shockingly simple: Tuning the Momento JavaScript cache client

Cut the caching clutter: understanding cache types

Open Source Startup Podcast

Simple. The way cloud pricing should be.

Think before you cache

OpenTelemetry: Tips to navigate the sea of observability options

The dark art of multi-tenancy

Shockingly simple: Cache clients that do the hard work for you

Oops, Momento ate 60% of my Lambda latencies!

Stop settling for almost serverless

The biggest miss in your cache hit rate

Finally, a serverless cache that delivers on the promise of the cloud era

Making Pelikan fly on Arm: Diving deeper into our adventures with Tau T2A VMs

4 tips for building high-performance systems

Turbocharging Pelikan Cache on Google Cloud’s latest Arm-based T2A VMs

Real World Serverless Podcast: Khawaja Shams

Serverless Cache: The missing piece to go fully serverless

Why tail latencies matter