Coming From Redis: Pointing Your .NET App at Zaris
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If your .NET services already talk to Redis, moving to Zaris doesn't have to be a rewrite. Zaris is a distributed, in-memory, replicated key/value store built natively for .NET — and as of 2.0.0 it speaks two protocols at once: its own efficient binary protocol for first-class .NET clients, and a Redis-compatible RESP2 front-end that any Redis client in any language can point at.
That gives you two honest migration paths, and they're not mutually exclusive. You can start with the zero-change RESP path to get Zaris under load today, then adopt the native client where it pays off. This post walks both, and gives you a clear rule for picking.