Redis setup, installation, and configuration
Redis is designed to run with a small footprint and provide quick access to its in-memory data. This allows it to be an effective data store on commodity hardware, cloud instances, and containers. Bearing these aspects in mind, there are a few hardware recommendations that make sense to follow.
Virtualization versus on-the-metal
As Redis IO indicates in its documentation,[6] it is preferable to deploy Redis on a physical machine over a VM. This is because a VM will have a higher intrinsic latency, or rather latency that we cannot improve upon with any amount of server or application configuration.
The redis-cli does have a means by which to measure intrinsic latency. Simply run the following on your Redis server (not the client), from the redis directory. It will measure latency on the machine (Redis does not need to be running) for a period of 30 seconds:
src/redis-cli --intrinsic-latency 30Running this command (after installing Redis) will return...
