Redis in Action

322 Pages·2013·8.01 MB·English

by  Josiah L. Carlson

IN ACTION
Josiah L. Carlson

FOREWORD BY Salvatore Sanfilippo
M A N N I N G
Redis in Action
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Redis in Action
JOSIAH L. CARLSON
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To my dear wife, See Luan,
and to our baby girl, Mikela
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brief contents
P 1 G . ..........................................................1
ART ETTING STARTED
1 ■ Getting to know Redis 3
2 ■ Anatomy of a Redis web application 24
P 2 C .............................................................37
ART ORE CONCEPTS
3 ■ Commands in Redis 39
4 ■ Keeping data safe and ensuring performance 63
5 ■ Using Redis for application support 90
6 ■ Application components in Redis 110
7 ■ Search-based applications 154
8 ■ Building a simple social network 185
P 3 N .................................................................207
ART EXT STEPS
9 ■ Reducing memory use 209
10 ■ Scaling Redis 228
11 ■ Scripting Redis with Lua 249
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contents
foreword xv
preface xvii
acknowledgments xix
about this book xxi
about the cover illustration xxv
P 1 G ..................................................1
ART ETTING STARTED
1 Getting to know Redis 3
1.1 What is Redis? 4
Redis compared to other databases and software 4 ■ Other
features 6 ■ Why Redis? 6
1.2 What Redis data structures look like 7
Strings in Redis 9 ■ Lists in Redis 10 ■ Sets in Redis 11
Hashes in Redis 12 ■ Sorted sets in Redis 13
1.3 Hello Redis 15
Voting on articles 15 ■ Posting and fetching articles 19
Grouping articles 20
1.4 Getting help 22
1.5 Summary 22
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