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Redis Stack for Application Modernization

By : Luigi Fugaro, Mirko Ortensi
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Book Image

Redis Stack for Application Modernization

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By: Luigi Fugaro, Mirko Ortensi

Overview of this book

In modern applications, efficiency in both operational and analytical aspects is paramount, demanding predictable performance across varied workloads. This book introduces you to Redis Stack, an extension of Redis and guides you through its broad data modeling capabilities. With practical examples of real-time queries and searches, you’ll explore Redis Stack’s new approach to providing a rich data modeling experience all within the same database server. You’ll learn how to model and search your data in the JSON and hash data types and work with features such as vector similarity search, which adds semantic search capabilities to your applications to search for similar texts, images, or audio files. The book also shows you how to use the probabilistic Bloom filters to efficiently resolve recurrent big data problems. As you uncover the strengths of Redis Stack as a data platform, you’ll explore use cases for managing database events and leveraging introduce stream processing features. Finally, you’ll see how Redis Stack seamlessly integrates into microservices architectures, completing the picture. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with best practices for administering and managing the server, ensuring scalability, high availability, data integrity, stored functions, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction to Redis Stack
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Part 2: Data Modeling
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Part 3: From Development to Production

Part 3: From Development to Production

In addition to the traditional Lua server-side scripts and functions, Redis Stack introduces a JavaScript serverless engine that enables users to write and execute custom functions directly on data stored in Redis. This feature supports various use cases, such as write-behind caching to sync Redis changes with backend databases, and streaming and event processing to respond to events in Redis using its diverse data structures and capabilities.

Additionally, Redis Stack includes RedisInsight, a graphical desktop manager that connects to Redis Stack databases. This tool provides visualization tools for various data models stored in Redis. Traditionally used as an in-memory cache alongside a primary database, Redis Stack extends Redis’s capabilities, making it suitable as a standalone, multi-model primary database for diverse applications.

The content in this part also covers the transition from a development environment to deploying...