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ServiceStack 4 Cookbook
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Redis is a powerful tool with performance as its main focus. In this recipe, we will look at how to use different aspects of the ServiceStack.Redis client to help take full advantage of integrating with Redis.
Let's use Redis to enhance GreetingService. We'll store each greeting created in the Redis cache. We'll need Redis installed and running in order to store and retrieve values, which we can do by performing the following steps:
Download the Redis .zip file from the Redis site at http://redis.io/download.
For this example, it is easiest to run the Redis server on Windows. Although Windows is not officially supported, MSOpenTech on GitHub does maintain a repository for Redis on Windows. This can be found at https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/. At the time of writing, a zip of the latest can be found in /bin/release of the repository.
Extract the .zip file.
Start the redis-server.exe binary, as follows:

After Redis is running, we'll also...
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