Stackexchange.redis: Question: Is it recommended to use the Async methods in the StackExchange.Redis API

[salzersoftware]

Redis operations are extremely fast. I don't have the link to the Microsoft documentation where it specifies that you don't need to/shouldn't use async for operations under 50ms, but I recall hearing this point.

For this reason, should Async operations even be used? (In fast Redis environments)

[hartmannr76]

I think it depends. Theres a SO question about this and it seems like the "under 50ms" guideline only applies to UI applications

[NickCraver]

It's all async under the covers in 2.x due to pipelines and generally how we pipeline data as a task stream of sorts (and this was already largely true in 1.x) - if you're in an async path, then yes - use the async methods and lighten your IO/thread load a bit.

[NickCraver]

Closing out to cleanup :)