Recently, I’ve been looking into how to improve the performance and scalability of ASP.NET Core web APIs. One strategy for doing this is caching data in a Redis server. Redis is popular open source key-value store that is often used for caching.

In this post, we’ll briefly cover how to get started with redis on windows.

Installation

For the installer, head to the latest windows redis release, download and run the latest MSI.

I’d recommend ticking the box to add redis to the PATH variable to make interacting with redis from the command line easier:

#redis #apis #msi