Chapter 11. Scripting Redis with Lua
This chapter covers
- Adding functionality without writing C
- Rewriting locks and semaphores with Lua
- Doing away with WATCH/MULTI/EXEC
- Sharding LISTs with Lua
Over the last several chapters, you’ve built up a collection of tools that you can use in existing applications, while also encountering techniques you can use to solve a variety of problems. This chapter does much of the same, but will turn some of your expectations on their heads. As of Redis 2.6, Redis includes server-side scripting with the Lua programming language. This lets you perform a variety of operations inside Redis, which can both simplify your code and increase performance.
In this chapter, we’ll start by discussing some of the advantages ...
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