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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

Installing Redis Stack using binary packages

Redis Stack is source-available software, allowing users to freely access and modify its source code. However, executing the software requires first building it, which can occasionally be complex due to hard-to-find dependencies on system libraries. The simplest way to initiate the software is by obtaining its precompiled binary and executing it. This method is the primary focus of the discussion in this section. However, the complete list of installation options can be found at the following site: https://redis.io/download/#redis-stack-downloads.

Because most of the server environments, either developer local desktop or production, are based on Linux machines, for our example, I’ll use the Ubuntu Focal x86_64 binary:

  1. Let’s start by opening your preferred terminal application and navigating in the filesystem to the path that you want your Redis Stack software to be. In my case, I’m creating a folder called...