#144 Cookbook

Notes on the book Redis Cookbook, By Tiago Macedo and Fred Oliveira, pubished by O’Reilly

Notes

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• O’Reilly listing
• goodreads

Highlights from the Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Redis

• When to use Redis
• Installing Redis
• Using Redis Data Types

1. Clients

• Using Redis from the Command Line
• Using Redis from Python with redis-py
• Using Redis from Ruby with redis-rb
• Using Redis with Ruby on Rails

1. Leveraging Redis

• Using Redis as a Key/Value Store (application usage counters, object data in hashes)
• Inspecting Your Data
• Implementing OAuth on Top of Redis
• Using Redis’s Pub/Sub Functionality to Create a Chat System
• Implementing an Inverted-Index Text Search with Redis
• Analytics and Time-Based Data
• Implementing a Job Queue with Redis
• Extending Redis

1. Redis Administration and Maintenance

• Configuring Persistence (Snapshotting, AOF)
• Starting a Redis Slave
• Handling a Dataset Larger Than Memory
• Upgrading Redis
• Backing up Redis
• Sharding Redis

Credits and References

• O’Reilly listing
• goodreads