Episode 209: Josiah Carlson on Redis

Josiah Carlson discusses Redis, an in-memory single-threaded data structure server. A Redis mailing list contributor and author, Josiah talks with Robert about the differences between Redis and a key-value store, client-side versus server-side data structures, consistency models, embedding Lua scripts within the server, what you can do with Redis from an application standpoint, native locking versus application-level locking, how to scale out Redis, persistence options and some operational considerations in running a Redis server.

Recording Venue: Internet

Related Links

• Redis project site: http://redis.io
• Redis community mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/redis-db
• Redis news on Twitter: https://twitter.com/redisfeed
• The book Redis in Action by Josiah Carlson: http://www.manning.com/carlson
  Free chapters from book in PDF (requires signup):
  http://www.manning.com/free/excerpt_carlson.html;
  http://www.manning.com/free/excerpt_carlson_b.html
• Josiah Carlson’s source code from the book on github https://github.com/josiahcarlson/redis-in-action
• Josiah Carlson’s python-redis object mapper: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rom
• Josiah Carlson’s blog: http://www.dr-josiah.com
• Salvatore Sanfilippo’s home page: http://invece.org
• Lua home page: http://www.lua.org

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