Recommendations you can check.
Who uses, recommends or left Redis, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
1 person and 5 companies
My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
Post listing the SaaS subscriptions he replaced with tools he built himself, with the monthly savings for each swap.
2026-09-09·x.com ↗
The sync service uses a cursor to get changes not yet sent to clients and caches this cursor in Redis.
Linear's incident post-mortem describing its sync service
2024-01-30·linear.app ↗
On-premises, we install and manage Redis ourselves on a bunch of Linux servers.
Stack Overflow for Teams on self-managed Redis on-premises
2023-09-05·stackoverflow.blog ↗
using serverless Redis that can scale to meet the demands of our workload
Serverless Redis in the BBC Online WebCore platform
2022-03-29·medium.com ↗
For example, we use Redis to cache individual query results, which coalesces some of our more bursty and frequently repeated queries into a single ClickHouse query and removes unnecessary load from the ClickHouse cluster.
Sentry on caching Snuba query results in Redis
2019-05-16·blog.sentry.io ↗
We implement our rate limiters using Redis.
How Stripe implements its API rate limiters
2017-03-30·stripe.com ↗
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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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