RU102PY · Self paced
Redis for Python Developers
A complete introduction to Redis for Python developers.
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What you’ll learn
In RU102PY, you’ll build a complete application using Python, Redis, and the Flask web framework. You’ll learn how to connect to Redis, model a domain, store and retrieve data, and take advantage of common Redis patterns.
What you’ll build
As the course progresses, you’ll write code that implements the features of a solar power monitoring application. This real-world project consists of three components:
- A command-line data loading application
- A REST API backend using Flask
- A Vue.js front end (No Vue experience required!)
We’ll store data in Redis using a data model that we’ll develop along the way. The project will leverage a number of Redis data structures, including:
- Hashes
- Sets
- Sorted Sets
- Geospatial indexes
- Streams
We’ll provide examples of best practices such as the use of pipelining, transactions, and Lua scripting. We’ll also demonstrate several common Redis patterns, including rate-limiting for API calls and leaderboards for top-producing solar sites.
Course Outline
Week 1
- Overview and Introduction
- Hello Redis
- Getting Started with the Redis Client for Python
- Introduction to Coding Challenges and test-driven development
Week 2
- Modeling a Domain Problem in Redis
- Storing Solar Site Metrics
- Sorted Sets for Site Energy Status
- Building Leaderboards and Top-N/Bottom-N Queries
- Pipelining
- Transactions
Week 3
- Geo-Indexing Solar Sites
- Criteria Searching with Geo
- Redis Streams for Data Ingestion
Week 4
- Rate-Limiting
- Error Handling
- Connection Management
- Debugging
- Understanding Client Internals: Protocols, Binary Data, and Encoding
Week 5
- Final Exam
- Course Number
- RU102PY
- Starts
- January 23, 2024
- Ends
- March 07, 2024
- Estimated Effort
- ~ 3 hours per week
Prerequisites
RU102PY has no course prerequisites. However, we assume that students already understand:
- The Python programming language
- Redis and Redis Data Structures, at least at a basic level
Software Requirements
- Web Browser: Firefox 39.0+ or Chrome 43+
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.7+ 64-bit, Ubuntu 14.04+ 64-bit, or Windows 10
- Software: Docker, or local installs of Python 3.8, make and Redis 5 or 6
- Access to youtube.com, university.redis.com and github.com
Andrew Brookins was a Developer Advocate at Redis and is the author of The Temple of Django Database Performance. A senior developer with ten years of experience, Andrew has made big contributions to production software using Python, Ruby, JavaScript/ES6, Objective-C, and more.