“Redis is cool tech, the best option when you need a fast cache.”, that summarizes my image of Redis until sometime ago when I truly started to research modern data platforms in connection to application modernization efforts.
When it comes down to performance, enterprise developers are lazy, especially the managed (Java/.NET) kind. After all, when performance problems pop up experience tells you it’s always a question of database, disk I/O or network latency issue in the end, right ?