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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 and internal scripting to make Redis easier to use.

About the Technology

When you need near-real-time access to a fast-moving data stream, key-value stores like Redis are the way to go. Redis expands on the key-value pattern by accepting a wide variety of data types, including hashes, strings, lists, and other structures. It provides lightning-fast operations on in-memory datasets, and also makes it easy to persist to disk on the fly. Plus, it's free and open source.

About this book

Redis in Action introduces Redis and the key-value model. You'll quickly 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 and discover how to integrate with traditional RDBMS or other NoSQL stores. Experienced developers will appreciate the in-depth chapters on clustering and internal scripting.

Written for developers familiar with database concepts. No prior exposure to NoSQL database concepts nor to Redis itself is required. Appropriate for systems administrators comfortable with programming.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside
  • Redis from the ground up
  • Preprocessing real-time data
  • Managing in-memory datasets
  • Pub/sub and configuration
  • Persisting to disk

About the Author

Dr. Josiah L. Carlson is a seasoned database professional and an active contributor to the Redis community.

Table of Contents
  1. PART 1 GETTING STARTED
  2. Getting to know Redis
  3. Anatomy of a Redis web application
  4. PART 2 CORE CONCEPTS
  5. Commands in Redis
  6. Keeping data safe and ensuring performance
  7. Using Redis for application support
  8. Application components in Redis
  9. Search-based applications
  10. Building a simple social network
  11. PART 3 NEXT STEPS
  12. Reducing memory use
  13. Scaling Redis
  14. Scripting Redis with Lua

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Dr. Josiah L Carlson is well known as an active and helpful contributor on the Redis mailing list. He has given talks about real-world uses of Redis, including building a self-service ad network, prioritizing task queues, web spiders, a Twitter analytics platform, real-time search engines, and more.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; First Edition (June 28, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1617290858
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1617290855
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014
    Great book for both high-level overview and in-depth details. I benefited from the high-level overview of various topics and my development team benefited from practical code examples that got right to the point of each topic.
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2013
    I have been a frontend developer for the last 8 years, doing mostly HTML, CSS, and some Javascript. I bought this book because my friend said that if I wanted to get into backend programming I should learn about databases. He said that Redis was a neat database, and that I might understand it better because the data model is a lot like what we get with Javascript. So I bought this book not really knowing anything about Redis or Python.

    I'm not going to lie, it was pretty tough to get started because I didn't know anything about Python. I stopped about halfway through chapter 1 to go through some of the Python tutorial, mistakenly reading about Python 3.3, then had to go back and read the tutorial on Python 2.7 because that's what the book is written for. Ugh. But I kept going and I just finished chapter 3.

    What I like: comments everywhere, good examples, the author seems to know the questions I'm going to ask because he answers them in the book just when they pop up in my head.

    What I don't like: I wish there was a Redis client for Javascript on the front end so I could just do all of this directly instead of having to go through Python or something else. Anyone know when the author is going to translate this to Node.js like he promised in the first chapter? If he gets it translated then I don't need to learn a new language :(
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2016
    This is the Redis book I have read EVERY page. The examples are very useful. I hope the author can include more examples and write the 2nd edition for the latest Redis development!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2013
    I was really excited to get this book and review all the topics included, but it ends up a not so great experience because of all the confusing bits and pieces of code which are parachuted without enough comments and explanations, making it much harder and less effective to follow.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2015
    I am a software developer, and I found that the author has a very different background than me, maybe system administrator or a hardware engineer. Many things he is talking about make no sense to me, while the questions I am interested in are not answered. I am interested mostly in the properties of Redis data structures, while the author talks mostly about memory, disks and locking. At first I read this book with Google, looking for the answers in Redis specification, but then stopped reading the book at all. For me it is not too useful, and pretty unclear.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2014
    Good intro into Redis and even more. If you need just basic knowledge how to work with this database - first four chapters are covering most used commands, Redis data structures locks, transactions and replication. That is all you need! Now you can start work with this db!
    Later chapters describe how to build and run complex applications. Most code examples are in python so you must be familiar with this language to get most from the source. Ending chapters includes good info on performance optimization and architecture of Redis-based applications. In overall this book is great resource to get familiar with the database.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2013
    Before I get into it, I really don't know what C. Collomb is talking about. At least 75% of the code in the book includes comments. Want to see for yourself? Read and download the example source code at the book's Github repository: [...] . There is uncommented Java code, but the Python in the repository is what is in the book.

    Now that that's out of the way, I've been a pretty heavy user of Redis for the last few years as part of my job, and have been programming with Python over a half-dozen years. Given my experience, most of chapters 1-4 were too basic for me, but at least the book got me used to the way Josiah writes.

    There were a few interesting topics in chapters 5 and 6, but I really think the author hits his stride in chapter 7 with searching. He pulls together a few different topics from earlier in the book to basically build an ad server with Redis. He leaves the reader with a full page listing of how to make the ad server better, which at least got me thinking, even though I hate ads.

    I wasn't interested in chapter 8's social network buildout, and the section on the streaming API probably shouldn't have even been there (it's more Python than Redis). But in chapter 9 he brings it all back together and shows how you can cut memory use in about half of the situations that I've at least come across. Then in chapter 10 he continues on the scaling side of things, again bringing up older examples.

    We finally get a taste of Lua scripting in chapter 11, where Josiah revisits even more previous problems. I really think that chapter 11 should have been longer, because there are a lot more interesting problems out there that Lua solves. And I wasn't interested in the sharded lists, but I guess it completes the reduced-memory sharding of structures he started in chapter 9.

    If I were a new Redis user, I would give this book a 5. There is gradual buildup through the first few chapters in preparation for the more intermediate and advanced topics later on. Some of the earlier problems are a bit contrived, but it will get a new Redis user asking the right questions. If you aren't a Python user, some of the code might be a bit tough to work through, but it's a lot easier (and shorter) than if the book was in Java.

    As a more advanced user of Redis, I wanted more of the advanced topics, but Josiah covered enough interesting problems to make it a worthwhile read. I'd consider this a solid 4, maybe 4.5 for a more advanced user, but I'm going to give it a 5 just because it is so much better than anything else out there for documenting best practices with Redis and covering topics that you just can't find anywhere else.
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  • Bernhard Woditschka
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction and Reference
    Reviewed in Germany on August 11, 2015
    I bought this book to jump start using Redis in a high availability setup.
    Good introduction and also covers advanced topics.
  • Frank R.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2014
    Great reference, full of relevant examples. For me most fun starts at the "Next Steps" section but I appreciate how this books may help someone to start from 0 and build real world applications using Redis as the main database.
  • Gregoire
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bon ouvrage
    Reviewed in France on December 1, 2013
    Ce livre decrit les differentes fonctions de Redis avec un exemple pour chacune, et les exemples sont bien faits

    Je recommande cet ouvrage et pour ma part je l'ai acheté aprés avoir consulté les avis US qui sont trés élogieux
  • Vincenzo Ciaccio
    3.0 out of 5 stars but a nice overview overall
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2015
    Not exactly what I was searching for, but a nice overview overall.