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Run Redis locally

Get Redis running on your machine with Docker, Homebrew on macOS, apt on Ubuntu, or WSL on Windows; connect with redis-cli and RedisInsight, try the basic commands, enable persistence and a password, connect from Java, Python and Node.js, and fix common problems.

CodexBash, , 5 min read

Redis is an in-memory data store used for caching, sessions, rate limiting, queues and leaderboards, and it appears in a huge number of backend projects. Our article on Redis from the ground up explained what it is; this guide gets it running on your machine so you can experiment and develop against it. There are several routes depending on your operating system; Docker works everywhere and is the quickest.

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