Redis Integration Is Now Available In UI Apps. What can you build with it?

Redis is one of the most critical layers in modern systems and also one of the least visible. It powers caching, sessions, counters, rate limits, and fast-changing state. It keeps systems responsive and absorbs load from primary databases. But most teams only interact with Redis indirectly, usually when debugging something.

With Redis now supported as a data source in UI Bakery, that invisible layer becomes something you can build on top of directly.

Redis is the ''hot'' layer of your architecture

In many production stacks, Redis handles the data that changes constantly and must be accessed instantly. API usage counters, active sessions, feature flags, and temporary workflow state live in memory because speed matters.

Until now, building internal tools around that layer meant writing custom admin panels or internal dashboards from scratch. UI Bakery removes that friction. You can connect to Redis directly and expose its data inside your internal applications.

From infrastructure to interface

Once Redis is accessible inside your builder, it stops being just background infrastructure.

Imagine your support team investigating why a customer was unexpectedly logged out. If session state is stored in Redis, you can build an internal panel that surfaces active sessions in real time without asking an engineer to SSH into a server or inspect logs.

Or consider API rate limiting. If your system relies on Redis counters to throttle requests, you can build a dashboard that shows live usage per client. Operations teams can instantly see who is approaching limits and adjust behavior before it becomes an incident.

If your application uses Redis for caching expensive database queries, you can create a control panel that shows cached keys, expiration times, and even allows controlled invalidation. Instead of guessing whether stale data is causing issues, teams can verify and act.

Operating across multiple data layers

Most internal tools are built only on top of primary databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL. But modern systems are multi-layered. Durable databases handle transactions and long-term storage. Redis handles speed, coordination, and temporary state.

When your internal applications can interact with both layers, you gain something important: visibility into how your system behaves in real time.

You reduce load on your main database by interacting with cached data. You make operational state observable. You allow teams to manage performance-sensitive workflows without writing custom tooling.

Building operational intelligence

The real shift is organizational. Redis is often managed exclusively by backend engineers. With UI Bakery, you can build interfaces that make this layer accessible to operations, support, and product teams. That means fewer blind spots, faster debugging, and better control.

Turning memory into a product surface

By supporting Redis as a data source, UI Bakery allows teams to build on top of their in-memory infrastructure the same way they build on top of their databases and APIs. Redis has always been powerful. Now it can be visible.