Taking a pause from the theory, let's look at how we can use Redis in Go. At the time of writing this book, there are two main Redis clients in Go:
- Redigo (https://github.com/garyburd/redigo) provides a print-like API for Redis commands. It also supports pipelining, publish/subscribe, connection pooling, and scripting. It's easy to use and the reference is located at https://godoc.org/github.com/garyburd/redigo/redis.
- Radix (https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix.v2) provides easy-to-use packages for most Redis commands, including pipelining, connection pooling, publish/subscribe, and scripting, but it also provides clustering support. The Radix.v2 package is broken into six sub-packages (cluster, pool, pubsub, Redis, sentinel, ...
