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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

Setting Up Client Libraries

In the previous chapter, we learned that Redis Stack is a powerful and versatile in-memory data structure store that is widely used for caching, message brokering, and real-time data processing. To facilitate seamless interaction between various programming languages and Redis, a variety of client libraries have been developed. These client libraries, also known as Redis clients, provide a convenient interface to access and manipulate Redis data structures through their respective language-specific APIs.

In this chapter, you will learn how to properly initialize and set up your Redis project in your preferred programming language, using Redis-supported client libraries.

First, you will learn the basics of the Redis Stack client libraries, and then you will learn, with hands-on examples, how to use those client libraries for your projects in your preferred programming languages:

  • Programming in Python using redis-py
  • Programming in Java using...