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Mastering Redis

By : Vidyasagar N V, Nelson
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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

Packaging your application with Docker Compose


Decomposing application to effectively use Docker often requires multiple running containers of different Docker images. If your application has multiple containers that are linked to each other, manually coordinating the management of application's Docker containers (starting, stopping, and so on) can be time consuming and prone to errors, especially if you forget any of the necessary parameters for specific containers (that is, you may have a volume container that is linked to your application container, with your application container requiring different port mappings). Fortunately, there is an open source project, Docker Compose, sponsored by Docker, Inc. that alleviates a lot of these problems.

Docker Compose is automatically included if you installed Docker Toolbox. Docker Compose can also be installed by following the directions at http://docs.docker.com/compose/. To illustrate the use of Docker Compose in an application, we'll create...