Redis 4.x Cookbook

Foreword

I still remember how surprised I was when for the first time I heard about Redis. It's so elegant and powerful, like a Swiss Army knife for your backend applications, and of course, it’s blazing fast. In modern data centers, the unit cost of RAM is getting lower and lower; it's no surprise that Redis is playing an important role in storage stacks of modern applications. Frankly speaking, Redis is way beyond an in-memory cache.

I’m a database engineer. Codis, a distributed Redis middleware, is my first open source project, which is widely used in the community. I’m quite proud of it. Codis provides a proxy-based solution to tackle the scalability problem of Redis and it’s an alternative to Redis Cluster. As one of the earliest adopters ...