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Module 1: Initial Setup

  • Redis Releases
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Security Model
  • Boot-time Redis Startup
  • 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
  • Understanding 'Redis is Mostly Single-Threaded' in Practice
  • Redis Wire Protocol
  • Handling Commands Unknown to Your Client Library
  • Reasons for Deliberate Command Exclusions in Client Libraries
  • Shifting Mindset from Relational Database Design
  • General Tips on Data Organization
  • Expiration
  • Pub/Sub
  • Transactions & Lua Scripts
  • External Modules
  • General Tips on Data Consistency

Module 3: Performance Tips

  • Benchmarking Redis
  • Commands to Avoid
  • Debugging Latency Problems
  • Issues with Large DELETE Requests and Alternatives
  • Pipelining
  • Mass Insertion
  • Debugging Memory Overuse
  • Memory Optimization Tips

Module 4: Operations

  • Available Persistence Mechanisms
  • Precautions to Avoid 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: Multiple Redis Instances

  • Starting Multiple Redis Instances on One Server
  • Application-Level Partitioning
  • Master-Slave Replication
  • High Availability Using Redis Sentinel
  • Redis Cluster
  • Configuring Sentinel and Cluster 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) + Sharding Capability
  • 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 do not have programming experience, we will utilize redis-cli commands directly.

 21 Hours

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