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Redis website had some out of date references

I picked the wrong place to refresh my Redis know-how  I started this post with the intention of making some notes about my experiences with learning more about how to apply Redis to solve a few common problems, but I stumbled across some out of date content and odd behaviour of the redis.io website so I'm making some notes about that instead. Rate limiting Java sample code missing  This was of interest as it sometimes comes up in interviews, so I wanted to look into an elegant solution. https://redis.io/learn/howtos/ratelimiting As I am mainly a Java developer, I followed the instructions for Java but didn't get very far as the repository that is mentioned seems to have been cleared out. The commit history seems to indicate that the repository has not been updated for a couple of years, so this wasn't a great start. Python. NodeJS and Ruby all show as still having code in their Github repositories. Website connection timeout The references section on the rate limiting howt...

Not that Stephen Souness

I don't have a very common name, but there is another Stephen Souness in New Zealand that made the news for bad reasons in 2020. It sometimes shows up highly ranked in search results for my name on the Internet. For the avoidance of doubt, my full name is Ian Stephen Souness so if you happen across court news about another Stephen Souness, know that's not about me.