Sometimes you need persistent storage or additional functionality provided by third-party libraries and services. This recipe will explore Redis as a form of non-relational data storage and showcase how a language such as Go can interact with these third-party services.

Since Redis supports key-value storage with a simple interface, it's an excellent candidate for session storage or temporary data that has a duration. The ability to specify a timeout on data stored in Redis is extremely valuable. This recipe will explore basic Redis usage from configuration, to querying, to using custom sorting.