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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)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Redis Stack
6
Part 2: Data Modeling
11
Part 3: From Development to Production

Caching, rate-limiting, geo-positioning, and other Redis traditional use cases

Implementing the many use cases that companies demand from their technical staff requires a technological stack and a competence development plan to sustain the efforts of designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining a solution. Evaluating and benchmarking the different options is time-consuming, and introducing a new technology demands processes and often increases the time to market for new features and products, thus slowing down the innovation and competitiveness of a company. Redis Stack is often regarded as a Swiss Army knife when it comes to solving different problems. As a data structures server, it allows you to transfer many responsibilities from application servers or specialized databases to a single, compact database server. In this section, we will recap the classical use cases that made Redis popular. Those uses include the following:

  • Caching
  • Session store
  • Rate limiter...