Using Redis exclusively remotely never made much sense to me. I get it as a secondary use case (gather stats from a server that’s running Redis, from another machine or something) but if it’s not acting as (effectively) structured, shared memory on a local machine with helpful coordination features, I don’t really get it. It excels at that, but all this Redis as a Service stuff where it’s never on the same machine as any of the processes accessing it don’t make sense to me.

Like you have to push those kinds of use cases if you’re trying to build a business around it, because a process that runs on your server with your other stuff isn’t a SaaS and everyone wants to sell SaaS, but it’s far enough outside its ideal niche that I don’t understand why it got popular to use that way.