diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f558be26..32ae66c5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2640,7 +2640,7 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-web",
  "env_logger",
- "redis 0.27.6",
+ "redis 0.28.2",
  "serde",
  "tracing",
 ]
@@ -6578,6 +6578,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
  "ryu",
  "sha1_smol",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-util",
+ "url",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "redis"
+version = "0.28.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e37ec3fd44bea2ec947ba6cc7634d7999a6590aca7c35827c250bc0de502bda6"
+dependencies = [
+ "arc-swap",
+ "backon",
+ "bytes",
+ "combine",
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-util",
+ "itoa",
+ "num-bigint",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "ryu",
+ "sha1_smol",
  "socket2",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
@@ -10056,6 +10079,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.98",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "zerocopy-derive"
+version = "0.8.17"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "06718a168365cad3d5ff0bb133aad346959a2074bd4a85c121255a11304a8626"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.93",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zerofrom"
 version = "0.1.5"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0edc9c60..ff4f9586 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ openssl = { version = "0.10.60", features = ["v110"] }
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
 rand = "0.9"
-redis = { version = "0.27" }
+redis = { version = "0.28" }
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json", "stream"] }
 rustls = "0.23"
 rustls-pemfile = "2"
diff --git a/databases/diesel-async/src/actions.rs b/databases/diesel-async/src/actions.rs
index 2bbb2c94..542f5662 100644
--- a/databases/diesel-async/src/actions.rs
+++ b/databases/diesel-async/src/actions.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use diesel_async::RunQueryDsl;
 type DbError = Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>;
 
 // /// Run query using Diesel to find item by uid and return it.
-pub async fn find_item_by_uid(
+pub async fn find_item_by_id(
     conn: &mut AsyncPgConnection,
     uid: Uuid,
 ) -> Result<Option<models::Item>, DbError> {
diff --git a/databases/diesel-async/src/main.rs b/databases/diesel-async/src/main.rs
index c4ea5ad6..b499a5cd 100644
--- a/databases/diesel-async/src/main.rs
+++ b/databases/diesel-async/src/main.rs
@@ -24,16 +24,16 @@ type DbPool = Pool<AsyncPgConnection>;
 #[get("/items/{item_id}")]
 async fn get_item(
     pool: web::Data<DbPool>,
-    item_uid: web::Path<Uuid>,
+    item_id: web::Path<Uuid>,
 ) -> actix_web::Result<impl Responder> {
-    let item_uid = item_uid.into_inner();
+    let item_id = item_id.into_inner();
 
     let mut conn = pool
         .get()
         .await
         .expect("Couldn't get db connection from the pool");
 
-    let item = actions::find_item_by_uid(&mut conn, item_uid)
+    let item = actions::find_item_by_id(&mut conn, item_id)
         .await
         // map diesel query errors to a 500 error response
         .map_err(error::ErrorInternalServerError)?;
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ async fn get_item(
         Some(item) => HttpResponse::Ok().json(item),
 
         // item was not found; return 404 response with error message
-        None => HttpResponse::NotFound().body(format!("No item found with UID: {item_uid}")),
+        None => HttpResponse::NotFound().body(format!("No item found with UID: {item_id}")),
     })
 }