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A Newsletter About Everything Redis |
Issue #3 |
Editor’s NoteI’ve scrounged the internets to bring you the newest stories and most up-to-date information on what the Redis community has been up to during the last week. I find it amazing to witness this level of activity even during the vacation season. I hope you’ll enjoy this collection at least as much as I had while preparing it. Redis Trivia: the correct way to pronounce “Redis” is / rɛdɪs/ – start with “red” (like the color) and finish off with “iss”. Cheers, |
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StoriesExtending Redis with Lua packages [link] – Badboy_ provides an experimetal (as in “don’t run this in production!”) approach for loading any Lua library to Redis. Me and Redis Are Now Friends [link] – Elad from ShinobiDevs takes us through the steps of using his Ruby gem frendis that implements a social graph in Redis (based on on a recipe from The Redis Cookbook). Tech Talk: Redis [video] – Pivotal’s Matt Stancliff presents four things about Redis – do yourself a favor and spend 30 minutes listening to that guy. Redis 3.0.0 beta 8 is out [link] – before taking an annual vacation, Antirez releases a new beta version for Redis Cluster <- an RC for RC is closer than ever. Preventing the Dogpile Effect – Problem and Solution [link] – also known as the “thundering herd” problem. While this isn’t exclusively a Redis problem, it is still worthwhile being acquainted with the presented solution. Reliable Queuing in Redis (Part 1) [link] – Bronto’s engineers love Redis and have built their own reliable queuing mechanism on top of it. |
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Coding & DevelopmentInstalling Redis on Windows [link] – a straight ‘n simple checklist for installing Redis as a Windows service. EntityFramework.Redis [link] – ASP.NET’s Entity Framework, Microsoft’s recommended data access technology for .NET applications, was added with support for Redis. Delete a bunch of Redis Keys with Lua [link] – the description, implementation and usage example are given in less than 140 characters – nice! rp [link] – a CLI in Go that pipes data using Pub/Sub, enabling easy implementation of MIMO data flows. aioredis [link] – an asynchronous (asyncio PEP 3156) Redis client for Python that’s still relatively young but looks promising. Celery-PHP [link] – now with support for Redis broker |
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Overheard@alopexc0de: “Spinning up an EC2 instance to make a version of lob.li that runs completely on Redis for storage #ForScience” [link] @Nick_Craver: “The #stackoverflow #redis server handled 42,772,766,987 operations in the last 14d 11h (2.95 billion/day) at 5% CPU. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/…” [link] @Joe_Vieira_: “Awesome 1/2 converted to Redis, really enjoying the perks it has over Memcache” [link] @ChrisKeathley: “@EWDurbin @acedrew Redis: The Leatherman of NoSQL” [link] @aarlo: “Thank you Redis HyperLogLog. Fun solutions for ad targeting problems” [link] |
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RedisBlog Post – Redis Performance Testing with Live Traffic by Tung Nyugen from Bleacher Report [link] Blog Post – Redis Headache #3 for Devops: Client Buffers [link] Blog Post – Managing 50K+ Redis Databases Over 4 Public Clouds with a Tiny Devops Team [link] |
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