Srivatsa Katta, Head of Engineering at Rapido in Bengaluru, India. Previously he was the head of Engineering at Dunya Labs. Srivatsa is Passionate in building scalable solutions for complex problems and has keen interest in building distributed systems. Currently Srivatsa is working with Rapido, one of the largest bike taxi platforms in India. Focussing more on last mile mobility in general and recently expanding to last mile logistics. They operate in 100+ cities with more than 1 million captains and 10 million customers on our platform.

[:40] “How’s life in Bangalore?”

[2:00] “What does Rapido do and what do you do at Rapido?”

[3:30] “How did you get your first start with Redis?”

[4:45]“What do you like most about Redis?”

[6:10]“What do you use Redis for at Rapido?”

[7:45] “What is distributed blocking?”

[15:20] “What do you do when services get overloaded?”

[16:30] “Are you using RateLimiting?”

[20:10]“What do you want to do next with Redis?”

Related Links:Rapido: https://rapido.bikeSrivatsa's Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srivatsa-katta/Srivatsa's Twitter: @vatsakattaRedis Client libraries: http://redis.io/clientsGeospatial Index: https://redislabs.com/redis-best-practices/indexing-patterns/geospatial/Rate Limiting: https://redislabs.com/redis-best-practices/basic-rate-limiting/Keyspace Expiry Notifications: https://redis.io/topics/notificationsDistributed Locks: https://redislabs.com/redis-best-practices/communication-patterns/Clean Rivers during COVID: http://f24.my/6YH0