Re:Learn Redis the hard way: in production
by antirez on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:14PM
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Yep I don't want to abandon the C book... Since is already halfway and is something more general and long lasting than Redis probably. The book indeed has certain Redis internals examples, but isolated so that you don't need to understand the Redis code base.
Re:Learn Redis the hard way: in production
by avtar on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:30PM
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I really hope you end up releasing this C book. Sounds like it will be a keeper.
Re:Learn Redis the hard way: in production
by anezvigin on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:59PM
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Just wanted to express my support for the C book as well. I'd even pre-order a copy.
Re:Learn Redis the hard way: in production
by netten on Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:37AM
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+1 for the c programming book, would love to see it in it's current form too.
Re:Learn Redis the hard way: in production
by jamiesonbecker on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:13PM
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I would also love to read a C book by @antirez! It'd go up there next to my K&R.*
I think a redis book is good, but your docs and blog articles are already excellent. If you combined them into a single document (slightly updated or curated blog articles as chapters, with the second half of the book as reference section/appendix for redis.io commands) then your book is done. You could probably even just hire someone to handle this formatting.
The C book sounds really fantastic.
* (btw, antirez wrote redis.)
Perhaps simplified Redis example could work as a good base to learn C. Single threaded, memory only persistence, network communication service so no complex stuff like concurrency and file management. Though there's probably a lot more going on in there...
Perhaps "Redis for devops" is another book waiting to happen, or how to write Redis modules. By the way, Manning's book (from 2013) is freely available these days: https://redislabs.com/resources/ebook/