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Redis in Action – Home
Foreword
Preface
Part 1: Getting Started
1.1.1 Redis compared to other database and software
1.1.3 Why Redis?
1.3.2 Posting and fetching articles
1.3.3 Grouping articles
2.1 Login and cookie caching
2.2 Shopping carts in Redis
2.3 Web page caching
2.5 Web page analytics
3.1 Strings
3.2 Lists
3.4 Hashes
3.5 Sorted sets
3.7.1 Sorting
3.7.2 Basic Redis transactions
3.7.3 Expiring keys
4.4 Redis transactions
4.7 Summary
5.1 Logging to Redis
5.2 Counters and statistics
5.2.2 Storing statistics in Redis
5.4.1 Using Redis to store configuration information
5.4.2 One Redis server per application component
5.4.3 Automatic Redis connection management
6.1 Autocomplete
6.2 Distributed locking
6.3 Counting semaphores
6.6 Distributing files with Redis
6.2.1 Why locks are important
6.2.2 Simple locks
6.2.5 Locks with timeouts
6.3.2 Fair semaphores
6.3.4 Preventing race conditions
6.5.1 Single-recipient publish/subscribe replacement
6.5.2 Multiple-recipient publish/subscribe replacement
6.6.2 Sending files
7.1 Searching in Redis
7.2 Sorted Indexes
7.5 Summary
7.1.2 Sorting search results
8.1.1 User information
8.5.1 Data to be streamed
9.2.2 SETs
9.4 Summary
Chapter 11: Scripting Redis with Lua
11.1.1 Loading Lua scripts into Redis
11.2 Rewriting locks and semaphores with Lua
11.5 Summary
11.2.1 Why locks in Lua?
11.2.2 Rewriting our lock
B.1 Forums for help
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