Did you read When Redis times out in an application but Redis is fine: Lessons from a Real-World investigation and think, “Great story, but we’re a .NET shop”? Fair enough! This is the companion piece. The investigation happened on the Java side, with the Lettuce client, but the lessons travel well, and most of them map neatly to StackExchange.Redis, the main Redis client library for .NET. A quick recap, in case you haven’t read it. An application running on Kubernetes saw intermittent client-side Redis timeouts while Redis itself looked healthy. The clearest cause was freshly started pods, where connections to each shard were opened on first use just as CPU throttling slowed everything down. Two other patterns showed up too,…