This is the Redis book I have read EVERY page. The examples are very useful. I hope the author can include more examples and write the 2nd edition for the latest Redis development!

I have been a frontend developer for the last 8 years, doing mostly HTML, CSS, and some Javascript. I bought this book because my friend said that if I wanted to get into backend programming I should learn about databases. He said that Redis was a neat database, and that I might understand it better because the data model is a lot like what we get with Javascript. So I bought this book not really knowing anything about Redis or Python.

I'm not going to lie, it was pretty tough to get started because I didn't know anything about Python. I stopped about halfway through chapter 1 to go through some of the Python tutorial, mistakenly reading about Python 3.3, then had to go back and read the tutorial on Python 2.7 because that's what the book is written for. Ugh. But I kept going and I just finished chapter 3.

What I like: comments everywhere, good examples, the author seems to know the questions I'm going to ask because he answers them in the book just when they pop up in my head.

What I don't like: I wish there was a Redis client for Javascript on the front end so I could just do all of this directly instead of having to go through Python or something else. Anyone know when the author is going to translate this to Node.js like he promised in the first chapter? If he gets it translated then I don't need to learn a new language :(

I was really excited to get this book and review all the topics included, but it ends up a not so great experience because of all the confusing bits and pieces of code which are parachuted without enough comments and explanations, making it much harder and less effective to follow.

Great book for both high-level overview and in-depth details. I benefited from the high-level overview of various topics and my development team benefited from practical code examples that got right to the point of each topic.

I am a software developer, and I found that the author has a very different background than me, maybe system administrator or a hardware engineer. Many things he is talking about make no sense to me, while the questions I am interested in are not answered. I am interested mostly in the properties of Redis data structures, while the author talks mostly about memory, disks and locking. At first I read this book with Google, looking for the answers in Redis specification, but then stopped reading the book at all. For me it is not too useful, and pretty unclear.

Good intro into Redis and even more. If you need just basic knowledge how to work with this database - first four chapters are covering most used commands, Redis data structures locks, transactions and replication. That is all you need! Now you can start work with this db!

Later chapters describe how to build and run complex applications. Most code examples are in python so you must be familiar with this language to get most from the source. Ending chapters includes good info on performance optimization and architecture of Redis-based applications. In overall this book is great resource to get familiar with the database.

Before I get into it, I really don't know what C. Collomb is talking about. At least 75% of the code in the book includes comments. Want to see for yourself? Read and download the example source code at the book's Github repository: [...] . There is uncommented Java code, but the Python in the repository is what is in the book.

Now that that's out of the way, I've been a pretty heavy user of Redis for the last few years as part of my job, and have been programming with Python over a half-dozen years. Given my experience, most of chapters 1-4 were too basic for me, but at least the book got me used to the way Josiah writes.

There were a few interesting topics in chapters 5 and 6, but I really think the author hits his stride in chapter 7 with searching. He pulls together a few different topics from earlier in the book to basically build an ad server with Redis. He leaves the reader with a full page listing of how to make the ad server better, which at least got me thinking, even though I hate ads.

I wasn't interested in chapter 8's social network buildout, and the section on the streaming API probably shouldn't have even been there (it's more Python than Redis). But in chapter 9 he brings it all back together and shows how you can cut memory use in about half of the situations that I've at least come across. Then in chapter 10 he continues on the scaling side of things, again bringing up older examples.

We finally get a taste of Lua scripting in chapter 11, where Josiah revisits even more previous problems. I really think that chapter 11 should have been longer, because there are a lot more interesting problems out there that Lua solves. And I wasn't interested in the sharded lists, but I guess it completes the reduced-memory sharding of structures he started in chapter 9.

If I were a new Redis user, I would give this book a 5. There is gradual buildup through the first few chapters in preparation for the more intermediate and advanced topics later on. Some of the earlier problems are a bit contrived, but it will get a new Redis user asking the right questions. If you aren't a Python user, some of the code might be a bit tough to work through, but it's a lot easier (and shorter) than if the book was in Java.

As a more advanced user of Redis, I wanted more of the advanced topics, but Josiah covered enough interesting problems to make it a worthwhile read. I'd consider this a solid 4, maybe 4.5 for a more advanced user, but I'm going to give it a 5 just because it is so much better than anything else out there for documenting best practices with Redis and covering topics that you just can't find anywhere else.

This is almost lifted directly from redislabs.com/ebook but written in a more confusing manner.

Great reference, full of relevant examples. For me most fun starts at the "Next Steps" section but I appreciate how this books may help someone to start from 0 and build real world applications using Redis as the main database.

I bought this book to jump start using Redis in a high availability setup.

Good introduction and also covers advanced topics.

Ce livre decrit les differentes fonctions de Redis avec un exemple pour chacune, et les exemples sont bien faits

Je recommande cet ouvrage et pour ma part je l'ai acheté aprés avoir consulté les avis US qui sont trés élogieux

Not exactly what I was searching for, but a nice overview overall.