Appendix B. Other resources and references

Over the last 11 chapters and appendix A, we’ve covered a variety of topics relating to Redis. As part of the problems that we solved, we introduced ideas that you may not have been familiar with and provided references for more information so that you can learn more.

This appendix gathers all of those references and more into a single location for easy access to other software, libraries, services, and/or documentation relating to the topics that we’ve covered, grouped by general topic.

B.1. Forums for help

These URLs will take you to forums where you can get help using Redis or with examples in other chapters:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/redis-db—Redis forum
• http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=809—Manning forum for Redis in Action

B.2. Introductory topics

This list of introductory topics covers some of the basic information about Redis and its use:

• http://redis.io/—Main Redis web site
• http://redis.io/commands—Full Redis command listing
• http://redis.io/clients—Redis client listing
• http://redis.io/documentation—Main reference page for documentation about Lua, pub/sub, replication, persistence, and so on.
• http://github.com/dmajkic/redis/—Dusan Majkic’s port of Redis to Windows
• http://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/—Microsoft’s official port of Redis to Windows

This list of introductory topics covers some of the basic information about Python and its use:

• http://www.python.org/—Main web page for the Python programming language
• http://docs.python.org/—Main Python documentation page
• http://docs.python.org/tutorial/—Python tutorial for new users
• http://docs.python.org/reference/—Python language reference for the full details on syntax and semantics
• http://mng.bz/TTKb—Generator expressions
• http://mng.bz/I31v—Python loadable Module tutorial
• http://mng.bz/9wXM—Defining functions
• http://mng.bz/q7eo—Variable argument lists
• http://mng.bz/1jLF—Variable arguments and keywords
• http://mng.bz/0rmB—List comprehensions
• http://mng.bz/uIdf—Python generators
• http://mng.bz/1XMr—Function and method decorators

B.3. Queues and other libraries

• http://celeryproject.org/—Python queue library that supports multiple back ends, including Redis
• https://github.com/josiahcarlson/rpqueue/—Python queue library for Redis only
• https://github.com/resque/resque—Standard Ruby + Redis queue
• http://www.rabbitmq.com/—Queue server for multiple languages
• http://activemq.apache.org/—Queue server for multiple languages
• https://github.com/Doist/bitmapist—Support for powerful bitmap-enabled analytics

B.4. Data visualization and recording

• http://www.jqplot.com/—Open source plotting library intended to be used with jQuery
• http://www.highcharts.com/—Free/commercial plotting library
• http://dygraphs.com/—Open source plotting library
• http://d3js.org/—General open source data visualization library
• http://graphite.wikidot.com/—Statistics gathering and visualization library

B.5. Data sources

In chapter 5, we used a database of IP-to-location information. This list includes a reference to that data, along with alternate data sources that may or may not be as up to date:

• http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite—IP address-to-geographic location information, first used in chapter 5
• http://www.hostip.info/dl/—Freely downloadable and usable IP-to-geographic location information database
• http://software77.net/geo-ip/—Another free IP-to-geographic location information database

B.6. Redis experiences and articles

• http://mng.bz/2ivv—An example architecture for cross-data-center Redis replication with compression
• http://mng.bz/LCgm—Real-time updates using Redis
• http://mng.bz/UgAD—Using Redis STRINGs to store some real-time metrics
• http://mng.bz/1OJ7—Instagram’s experience storing many key-value pairs in Redis
• http://mng.bz/X564—A brief summary of some problems where Redis shines, some of which we covered in previous chapters
• http://mng.bz/oClc—Sharding data into Redis at Craigslist
• http://mng.bz/07kX—An example of Redis being used in multiple parts of a stack that syncs photos between phones and desktops
• http://mng.bz/4dgD—One way that Disqus uses Redis in production
• http://mng.bz/21iE—Using Redis to store RSS feed information
• http://mng.bz/L254—Early example using Redis LISTs as storage for recent filtered Twitter messages