Learning Redis

Explore the fundamental skills you need to know to get started with Redis, the highly popular, open-source, in-memory database.

Introduction

• Understanding Redis
• Installing Redis
• Overview of the terminal CLI
• Understanding Redis docs

1. Basics of Redis

• What is Redis?
• Data types
• Your first command: SET
• Testing GET
• Playing around with strings

2. Representing Complex Data Structures: Hashes

• What are hashes?
• Writing and reading from hashes
• Exploring hashes

3. Lists and Sets in Redis

• Introduction to lists
• Understanding the pop and push mechanics
• Practical example: Building a queuing system with lists
• Adding people to the queue
• Getting people out of the queue
• Checking who's there
• Putting someone in the middle
• Checking who's the last one in the queue
• Analyzing the solution: Problems with repeated members
• Sets compared to lists
• Running a queuing example using sets

4. Sorted Sets

• Explaining what a sorted set is
• Leader board example using a sorted set

5. Key Naming Strategies

• Comparing Redis to relational databases
• Relating keys to each other
• Representing multi-key models

6. Beyond Data Storage

• What else can you do with Redis?
• Exploring Pub/Sub
• Exploring streams: Adding data
• Exploring streams: Reading data
• Example: Real-time message bus using Pub/Sub

7. Watching Keys for Updates

• Introduction to key-space notifications
• Practical example: Building a session timeout feature
• Resolution
• Explanation overview

8. An introduction to Redis at Scale

• What's missing for a production-ready architecture?
• An introduction to Redis Cluster
• An introduction to Redis Sentinel

Conclusion

• How to learn more about Redis