Redis, Caching, and Queues: The Boring Stuff That Makes Apps Feel Fast

The article discusses the importance of Redis, caching, and job queues in improving the performance of applications. The author experienced slow API calls and repeated requests, which led to the use of Redis to cache frequently requested data and job queues to process slow tasks in the background. This resulted in faster response times and reduced costs. To implement this, the author suggests caching expensive computations that don't change frequently, and using job queues for slow tasks that can be processed in the background.