Redid + Sidekiq was a default for a long time in the Rails world as well, but it’s an unnecessary complication (and expense) for most use cases. Just use your existing DB until you need to seriously scale up, and then look at a message queue.
I’ve used Redis for leaderboards and random matchmaking though, stuff which is doable in postgres but is seriously write-heavy and a bit of a faff. Gives you exactly the sort of goodies you need on top of a K/V store without being difficult to set up.
As for caching - it’s nice to use as an engineer for sure, but pretty pricey. It wouldn’t be my default choice any more.
I’ve used Redis for leaderboards and random matchmaking though, stuff which is doable in postgres but is seriously write-heavy and a bit of a faff. Gives you exactly the sort of goodies you need on top of a K/V store without being difficult to set up.
As for caching - it’s nice to use as an engineer for sure, but pretty pricey. It wouldn’t be my default choice any more.