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Overview of this book

Redis is considered the world's most popular key-value store database. Its versatility and the wide variety of use cases it enables have made it a popular choice of database for many enterprises. Based on the latest version of Redis, this book provides both step-by-step recipes and relevant the background information required to utilize its features to the fullest. It covers everything from a basic understanding of Redis data types to advanced aspects of Redis high availability, clustering, administration, and troubleshooting. This book will be your great companion to master all aspects of Redis. The book starts off by installing and configuring Redis for you to get started with ease. Moving on, all the data types and features of Redis are introduced in detail. Next, you will learn how to develop applications with Redis in Java, Python, and the Spring Boot web framework. You will also learn replication tasks, which will help you to troubleshoot replication issues. Furthermore, you will learn the steps that need to be undertaken to ensure high availability on your cluster and during production deployment. Toward the end of the book, you will learn the topmost tasks that will help you to troubleshoot your ecosystem efficiently, along with extending Redis by using different modules.
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Windows Environment Setup

When to use Redis in your application


As you have already seen the powerful features of Redis in previous chapters, you may be wondering what Redis can do in an application and when it should be used. In this recipe, we will show a few real-world application scenarios where Redis is a better choice than other storage solutions. Hopefully you will get more ideas for using Redis in your applications.

Session store

In a modern website architecture, there are multiple web servers behind one or more load balancers. Sessions usually need to be stored in external storage systems. If any of the web servers go down, another server can retrieve the sessions from the external storage and continue to serve traffic. Redis is a perfect session store because it has very low access latency compared to a RDBMS. Also, key expiration support in Redis can be naturally adopted for session timeout management.

Analytics

Redis can also be used for analytical and statistical purposes. For example, if we want to count...

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