The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems?
In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient—lessons directly applicable to your organization.

The key to client/server computing. Transaction processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the fields of databases and operating systems and are used to monitor, control and update information in modern computer systems. This book will show you how large, distributed, heterogeneous computer systems can be made to work reliably. Using transactions as a unifying conceptual framework, the authors show how to build high-performance distributed systems and high-availability applications with finite budgets and risk. The authors provide detailed explanations of why various problems occur as well as practical, usable techniques for their solution. Throughout the book, examples and techniques are drawn from the most successful commercial and research systems. Extensive use of compilable C code fragments demonstrates the many transaction processing algorithms presented in the book. The book will be valuable to anyone interested in implementing distributed systems or client/server architectures.

【官方网站】
本书的官方网站 www.RedisBook.com 提供了书本试读、相关源码下载和勘误回报等服务，欢迎读者浏览和使用。
【编辑推荐】
系统而全面地描述了 Redis 内部运行机制
图示丰富，描述清晰，并给出大量参考信息，是NoSQL数据库开发人员案头必备
包括大部分Redis单机特征，以及所有多机特性
【读者评价】
这本书描述的知识点很丰富，覆盖很全，里面提到特性较多，有不少我们也没用过 :) 每个命令内部的机制的介绍很不错，很多估计也是首次有详细文档介绍。
——杨卫华（@TimYang）新浪微博技术总监
近几年Redis以其高性能、高灵活性的优点，变得越来越流行。但很多人在使用Redis时，仅仅还是停留在比较表层的功能性认识，缺乏对内部机制原理的深入理解。本书是huangz同学长期对Redis源码的阅读心得结晶，书中对Redis的各个方面都进行了详细且深入的讲解，将复杂的原理用最简单的方式为大家解构和讲解，强烈推荐给每一位Redis的使用者阅读。
—— iammutex，NoSQLFan站长，乐视网技术经理
Redis 是近些年来特别火爆的 NoSQL 之一。纵观中外各种书籍还没有一本能对 Redis 内部进行深入剖析，《Redis 设计与实现》可谓开此先河。常和作者在网上交流，知道作者为这本书付出了大量的心血。这本书行文流畅，思路清晰，详细地介绍了 Redis 源码的方方面面。无论是想学习 NoSQL、网络编程的初学者，还是源码控的进阶者，本书都会有很大的帮助。
—— 阮若夷，支付宝高级专家
【内容简介】
本书全面而完整地讲解了Redis的内部机制与实现方式，对Redis的大多数单机功能以及所有多机功能的实现原理进行了介绍，展示了这些功能的核心数据结构以及关键的算法思想,图示丰富，描述清晰，并给出大量参考信息。通过阅读本书，读者可以快速、有效地了解Redis的内部构造以及运作机制，更好、更高效地使用Redis。
本书主要分为四大部分。第一部分“数据结构与对象”介绍了Redis中的各种对象及其数据结构，并说明这些数据结构如何影响对象的功能和性能。第二部分“单机数据库的实现”对Redis实现单机数据库的方法进行了介绍，包括数据库、RDB持久化、AOF持久化、事件等。第三部分“多机数据库的实现”对Redis的Sentinel、复制、集群三个多机功能进行了介绍。第四部分“独立功能的实现”对Redis中各个相对独立的功能模块进行了介绍，涉及发布与订阅、事务、Lua脚本、排序、二进制位数组、慢查询日志、监视器等。本书作者专门维护了www.redisbook.com网站，提供带有详细注释的Redis源代码，以及本书相关的更新内容。

The need to handle increasingly larger data volumes is one factor driving the adoption of a new class of nonrelational "NoSQL" databases. Advocates of NoSQL databases claim they can be used to build systems that are more performant, scale better, and are easier to program. NoSQL Distilled is a concise but thorough introduction to this rapidly emerging technology. Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler explain how NoSQL databases work and the ways that they may be a superior alternative to a traditional RDBMS. The authors provide a fast-paced guide to the concepts you need to know in order to evaluate whether NoSQL databases are right for your needs and, if so, which technologies you should explore further. The first part of the book concentrates on core concepts, including schemaless data models, aggregates, new distribution models, the CAP theorem, and map-reduce. In the second part, the authors explore architectural and design issues associated with implementing NoSQL. They also present realistic use cases that demonstrate NoSQL databases at work and feature representative examples using Riak, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Neo4j. In addition, by drawing on Pramod Sadalage's pioneering work, NoSQL Distilled shows how to implement evolutionary design with schema migration: an essential technique for applying NoSQL databases. The book concludes by describing how NoSQL is ushering in a new age of Polyglot Persistence, where multiple data-storage worlds coexist, and architects can choose the technology best optimized for each type of data access.