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Redis Stack for Application Modernization
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Redis Stack for Application Modernization

by Luigi Fugaro, Mirko Ortensi
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding Probabilistic Data Structures

The probabilistic data structures of Redis Stack are packed into a set of capabilities also known as Bloom filters. Such structures owe their name to Burton Howard Bloom, a computer scientist who introduced the concept of a probabilistic data structure in 1970 to resolve the problem of verifying whether an item belongs to a set. By using hash data representations, it is possible to achieve a sufficient approximation to the problem under analysis, allowing false positives (the item may belong to the set), but without false negatives (the item definitely does not belong to the set).

The Bloom filter has since become a widely used data structure in computer science. It is used in various applications, ...

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