Redis for Developers and System Administrators Training Course

Module 1: Initial setup

• Redis releases
• Installation
• Configuration
• Security model
• Initiating Redis during system boot
• Security hardening implemented by standard Linux distributions
• Client libraries and language bindings

Module 2: Data model

• Primitive data types and associated manipulation commands
• Typical application scenarios for each data type
• Standard naming conventions for Redis keys
• "Redis is mostly single-threaded" - practical implications
• Redis wire protocol
• Handling situations where client libraries lack support for specific useful commands
• Reasons for certain commands being deliberately omitted from some client libraries
• Shifting perspective from relational database design principles
• General recommendations for data organization
• Expiration mechanisms
• Pub/Sub
• Transactions & Lua scripts
• External modules
• General guidelines for data consistency

Module 3: Performance tips

• Redis benchmarking
• Commands to avoid
• Troubleshooting latency issues
• Managing large DEL requests - alternative approaches
• Pipelining
• Mass insertion techniques
• Investigating memory overuse
• Memory optimization strategies

Module 4: Operations

• Available persistence methods
• Preventive measures against SSD wear
• Backup and restoration procedures
• Utilities for inspecting database contents
• Tools for dump file analysis
• Balancing durability against performance
• Transitioning between RDB and AOF
• Use cases for diskless Redis
• Operating system tunables relevant to Redis
• Monitoring Redis performance

Module 5: More than one Redis

• Running multiple Redis instances on a single server
• Application-level partitioning
• Master-slave replication
• High availability via Redis Sentinel
• Redis Cluster
• Configuring Sentinel and Cluster across NAT
• Ensuring consistent backups