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Redis 4.x Cookbook

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Redis 4.x Cookbook

Overview of this book

Redis is considered the world's most popular key-value store database. Its versatility and the wide variety of use cases it enables have made it a popular choice of database for many enterprises. Based on the latest version of Redis, this book provides both step-by-step recipes and relevant the background information required to utilize its features to the fullest. It covers everything from a basic understanding of Redis data types to advanced aspects of Redis high availability, clustering, administration, and troubleshooting. This book will be your great companion to master all aspects of Redis. The book starts off by installing and configuring Redis for you to get started with ease. Moving on, all the data types and features of Redis are introduced in detail. Next, you will learn how to develop applications with Redis in Java, Python, and the Spring Boot web framework. You will also learn replication tasks, which will help you to troubleshoot replication issues. Furthermore, you will learn the steps that need to be undertaken to ensure high availability on your cluster and during production deployment. Toward the end of the book, you will learn the topmost tasks that will help you to troubleshoot your ecosystem efficiently, along with extending Redis by using different modules.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
13
Windows Environment Setup
Index

Introduction


We learned the data types and many useful features of Redis in Chapter 2, Data Types and Chapter 3, Data Features. In this chapter, we'll focus on the topic of application development with Redis.

First, we start by introducing some common Redis use cases to give you a brief idea of how Redis works in the real world.

After that, some guidelines will be provided for how to choose correct value types and APIs. It's very essential to follow these guidelines when developing applications with Redis because unlike most RDBMSes, you barely do anything to optimize the processing power of Redis by only tweaking the configuration on the server side. Using proper data types and APIs at the very beginning of application design is the key factor for making full use of the high performance of Redis and avoiding its pitfalls at the same time.

After the design guidelines, we are going to show how to develop an application with Redis using Java and Python. Spring Data Redis is also covered for web...