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Mastering Redis

By : Vidyasagar N V, Nelson
Book Image

Mastering Redis

By: Vidyasagar N V, Nelson

Overview of this book

Redis is the most popular, open-source, key value data structure server that provides a wide range of capabilities on which multiple platforms can be be built. Its fast and flexible data structures give your existing applications an edge in the development environment. This book is a practical guide which aims to help you deep dive into the world of Redis data structure to exploit its excellent features. We start our journey by understanding the need of Redis in brief, followed by an explanation of Advanced key management. Next, you will learn about design patterns, best practices for using Redis in DevOps environment and Docker containerization paradigm in detail. After this, you will understand the concept of scaling with Redis cluster and Redis Sentinel , followed by a through explanation of incorporating Redis with NoSQL technologies such as Elasticsearch and MongoDB. At the end of this section, you will be able to develop competent applications using these technologies. You will then explore the message queuing and task management features of Redis and will be able to implement them in your applications. Finally, you will learn how Redis can be used to build real-time data analytic dashboards, for different disparate data streams.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 1. Why Redis?

Why Redis? Or, why any technology? Such questions are often mumbled under the breath or asked by the more brave, cynical, or knowledgeable when encountering any new technology or service. Sometimes, the answer is obvious, the technology or service offers features and functionalities that meet an immediate need or solves a vexing problem. In most situations, the reasons for adopting a technology may not be as clear-cut or as apparent or are cloaked in sometimes hyperbolic or indecipherable marketing jargon. Depending on your needs, Redis falls somewhere closer to the obvious end of the spectrum instead of a marketing sales pitch. You may already know and have used Redis for some uses, such as meeting a data storage need or service requirement for an application, but you may not be aware of all that Redis can do or how other people are using Redis in their own organizations. Redis, best known for its speed, is not only fast in its execution but also fast in the sense that solutions built with Redis have fast iterations because of the ease in configuring, setting up, running, and using Redis.

The growing popularity of Redis, an open source key-value NoSQL technology, is a result of Redis's stability, power, and flexibility in executing a wide range of data operations and tasks in the enterprise, REmote DIctionary Server (Redis), is used by a diverse set of companies from start-ups to the largest technology companies such as Twitter and Uber, as well as by individuals and teams in government, schools, and organizations. We'll start this chapter with a short survey of a few popular design patterns for Redis and then, provide practical advice on determining whether Redis is the right choice for you.

We'll then go through a detailed example of how Redis a legacy metadata format used by public and academic libraries – including some museums – to illustrate Redis's flexibility and power with just three data structures and an intentional key design. Finishing this chapter off, we'll touch upon recently added functionalities and commands to Redis.