[jtchang]

This is a really good blog post. I find it very neutral even when the author happens to be the one who created Redis.

What I really like about both pieces of software is that they are dead simple to set up. If I were to make a decision today for new projects who are just starting to scale I'd probably take a good hard look at redis and see if you don't need any of the extra features. I could see a lot of projects eventually needing those features and leveraging redis. I really like the pub/sub feature in particular. Persistence is always nice if you don't have to pay too much for it.

Does anyone know if amazon has a redis/memcache service? I can never remember what they name things.

[kgrin]

They do - ElastiCache. And as it happens, you can choose either Redis or Memcached!

[aaronbrethorst]

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/