Summary

This chapter introduced the concepts behind Pub/Sub, transactions, and pipelines. It also showed the basics of the Lua language syntax, along with explanations on how to extend Redis with Lua.

A good variety of Redis commands was presented, such as commands that are used to monitor and debug a Redis server.

This chapter also showed how to perform data type optimizations by tweaking the redis-server configuration.

In the next chapter, we will introduce Redis clients for languages such as PHP, Python, and Ruby.

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