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		jiofih on Nov 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This Here: > The problem with this is that Redis isn't used because it is particularly good. It's used because everyone else uses it.

treis on Nov 9, 2020 [–]

Ok, and why do you think most people use Redis? Is it (1) they did a careful evaluation of the options and selected Redis because it was best or (2) everyone knows you use Redis if you need an in memory cache?

jiofih on Nov 11, 2020 | [–]

Wasn’t the case until at least 2016. Memcache was the default.

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