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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
6
Part 2: Data Modeling
11
Part 3: From Development to Production

Technical requirements

To follow along with this chapter, you need to have RedisInsight installed in your local environment.

To obtain RedisInsight, start by navigating to the official Redis website here: https://redis.com/redis-enterprise/redis-insight/

Once there, locate and click on the Download RedisInsight Now button, which will direct you to a form. Fill in all the required details on the form. After you’ve completed the form, click DOWNLOAD. This action will trigger the download of the RedisInsight software.

As the download progresses, the installation wizard will guide you through the rest of the setup process. Follow its instructions carefully to ensure smooth installation. Upon the completion of the installation process, you are free to launch and explore your freshly installed RedisInsight.

As of the time at which this guide was written, the latest available version of RedisInsight is 2.36.0 Be sure to stay updated and take advantage of the enhancements...