What's New in Two: March 2026 Edition
What you’ll learn in this video The biggest updates from Redis this month and how they impact real-time apps, AI agents, and production systems. Overview If you blinked, you missed a lot. This month, Redis shipped major updates across open source, cloud, and AI tooling: from Redis 8.6 performance gains to new capabilities for building stateful AI agents. In this quick recap, we break down what actually matters for developers: faster performance, simpler operations, better event streaming, and new tools for building AI applications with memory and real-time context. Whether you're running Redis in production or exploring it for AI workloads, this is your fastest way to get caught up. Key topics covered - Redis 8.6 GA: major gains in latency, throughput, and memory efficiency - More reliable Streams for event-driven architectures - Redis Cloud 8.4: unified data model + hybrid search + vector ranking - New primitives (compare-and-set, MSETEX) for safer app development - Redis Agent Skills for AI memory + retrieval workflows - Redis plugin for Cursor (AI-native dev workflows) - Improved observability: metrics resolution + health reporting - New context engineering lab for building AI agents with memory Resources & links - Redis 8.6 announcement blog: https://redis.io/blog/announcing-redis-86-performance-improvements-streams/ - Redis Agent Skills: https://github.com/redis/agent-skills - Cursor plugin: https://cursor.com/marketplace/redis - Context Engineering Lab: https://university.redis.io/course/vsgabnbkd3f5cd?tab=details - Redis Insight AMR Release Note: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/tools/insight/release-notes/v.3.2.0/ - Docs: https://redis.io/docs - Try Redis Cloud (free): https://redis.io/try-free -Dev Hub): https://redis.io/learn - Related videos: https://www.youtube.com/@Redisinc Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 00:20 - What’s new this month (overview) 01:00 - Redis 8.6 (performance + streams) 02:30 - Redis Cloud 8.4 updates 04:00 - AI updates (Agent Skills + Cursor plugin) 05:30 - Observability + operations improvements 06:30 - Context engineering lab Have questions? Drop them in the comments—we’re here to help. Subscribe for next month’s updates: https://www.youtube.com/@Redisinc?sub_confirmation=1 Tags #Redis #WhatsNew #AI #VectorSearch #RAG #RedisCloud #DevTools About Redis We’re the world’s fastest in-memory database. From our open source origins in 2011 to becoming the #1 cited brand for caching solutions, we’ve helped more than 10,000 customers build, scale, and deploy the apps our world runs on. With cloud and on-prem databases for caching, vector search, and more, we’re helping digital businesses set a new standard for speed.