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Course Outline

Module 1: Initial Setup

  • Redis Releases
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Security Model
  • Starting Redis at Boot
  • Security Hardening by Common Linux Distributions
  • Client Libraries and Language Bindings

Module 2: Data Model

  • Primitive Data Types and Manipulation Commands
  • Typical Use Cases for Each Data Type
  • Common Naming Conventions for Redis Keys
  • "Redis is Mostly Single-Threaded" – Practical Implications
  • Redis Wire Protocol
  • Actions to Take When Your Client Library Lacks a Useful Command
  • Reasons Some Commands Are Deliberately Unavailable in Certain Client Libraries
  • Shifting Your Mindset from Relational Database Design
  • General Tips on Data Organization
  • Expiration
  • Pub/Sub
  • Transactions and Lua Scripts
  • External Modules
  • General Tips on Data Consistency

Module 3: Performance Tips

  • Benchmarking Redis
  • Commands to Avoid
  • Debugging Latency Issues
  • Handling Large DEL Requests – Alternative Approaches
  • Pipelining
  • Mass Insertion
  • Debugging Memory Overuse
  • Memory Optimization Tips

Module 4: Operations

  • Available Persistence Mechanisms
  • Precautions to Prevent SSD Wearout
  • Backup and Restore
  • Tools for Exploring Database Contents
  • Tools for Dump Analysis
  • Tuning Durability vs. Performance
  • Switching Between RDB and AOF
  • Use Cases for Diskless Redis
  • OS-Level Tunables Relevant for Redis
  • Monitoring Redis Performance

Module 5: Managing Multiple Redis Instances

  • Starting Multiple Redis Instances on One Server
  • Application-Level Partitioning
  • Master-Slave Replication
  • High Availability Using Redis Sentinel
  • Redis Cluster
  • Enabling Sentinel and Cluster to Work Across NAT
  • Creating Consistent Backups

Module 6: High Availability

  • Installing and Setting Up Multi-Redis Servers
  • Standalone Server with Multiple Instances
  • Master-Slave Replication
  • Redis HA Cluster with Sentinel
  • Redis Sharding Cluster
  • Combining Redis Replication (with Sentinel) and Sharding Capabilities
  • Monitoring, Backup/Restore, and Performance Tuning for the Setup

Requirements

Participants should be proficient in basic system administration tasks using the Linux command line. Some topics require programming or scripting skills. When booking, please specify the programming languages you are familiar with. If you have none, we will simply issue Redis commands via redis-cli.

 21 Hours

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