Josiah L. Carlson
résumé
Redis is an innovative data tool that offers more flexibility than other available NoSQL key-value stores like Cassandra or DynamoDB. Because Redis accepts hashes, strings, lists, and other structures as values, you can expand the key-value idea to a wider range of use cases. Redis works with in-memory datasets to provide lightning-fast response times, and makes it easy to persist data to disk on the fly. It's free, open source, and easy to utilize from most standard programming languages.
Redis in Action introduces Redis and walks you through examples that demonstrate how to use it effectively. You'll begin by getting Redis set up properly and then exploring the key-value model. Then, you'll dive into real use cases including simple caching, distributed ad targeting, and more. You'll learn how to scale Redis from small jobs to massive datasets. Experienced developers will appreciate chapters on clustering Redis and internal scripting to make programming for Redis it easier to use.
contents
Table of Contents Resources
Part 1 Getting started
1 Getting to know Redis - FREE
2 Anatomy of a Redis web application - AVAILABLE
Part 2 Core concepts
3 Data structures
4 Maintaining Redis and ensuring performance
5 Using Redis for systems administration
6 Application components in Redis - AVAILABLE
7 Entire applications in Redis
8 Actually building Twitter
Part 3 Next steps
9 Reducing memory use
10 Scaling Redis up
11 Scaling Redis out
12 Scripting
Appendixes
A Quick and dirty setup
B Sample code for problems/examples in Javascript
C Sample code for problems/examples in Ruby
D Other resources and references
