More or less yes. Actually with Redis Cluster you probably want one instance per core anyway, that will use all your CPU power. But Redis will handle all the sh

More or less yes. Actually with Redis Cluster you probably want one instance per core anyway, that will use all your CPU power. But Redis will handle all the sharding, adding new nodes, removing nodes, selecting the right node, and so forth. The point of the article is that with what you have now as stable releases you can mount a schema that may work for you.