Want to bring more performance, speed, and scalability to your website? Or scale your sites for real-time services or message passing? Learn how, and get practical real-world tips in this exploration of Redis, part of a series on choosing the right data storage.

Steven Edouard and I show you how to get up and running with Redis, a powerful key-value cache and store. In this course, you can check out a number of practical and advanced use cases for Redis as cache, queue, and publish/subscribe (pub/sub) tool, look at NoSQL and data structures, see how to create list sets and sorted sets in the cache, and much more.

You can watch the course online on Microsoft Virtual Academy.

This is the companion code repository for the course where you will find all the code samples and presentations.

This is the introductory module covering the basics of key-value stores vs tabular databases. In this module you'll understand the fundamental organization of key-value stores, the concept of caches and other data structures.

In this module, we will cover installing and setting up Redis on Windows, learning the basic commands of Redis and general data structures including lists.

In this module, we will learn about hashes, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps and hyperloglogs.

In this module, we will learn about Azure Redis Cache, how to set it up on the new Azure Portal and how to connect to it.

In this module, we will learn how to connect to Azure Redis Cache with C#, Python & Node.js and see how we can use Redis as a cache in a variety of applications.

In this module, we will show you how to use Redis as a publish-subscribe mechanism. This is one of Redis' more interesting applications and we will show you how to set up Redis as a pub-sub on Azure VMs.