This doesn't apply to everything. But yeah redis does what it does really well. I almost feel like I want to spin redis up before I spin a DB up. It is excellen

This doesn't apply to everything. But yeah redis does what it does really well. I almost feel like I want to spin redis up before I spin a DB up. It is excellent tech. Can use it for caching. Sessions. Distributed locks (niche but when you need it it's fantastic). But yeah I think this is more applied to the folks who decide to spin up a large service when they just need a messaging layer that their DB can solve for them. It has non insignificant cost. Redis is pretty low maintenance tho in many configs (k8s, on a vm, or a service like on aws have all basically been zero maintenance for me).