Build Your Own Redis with C/C++

Learn network programming and data structures by building a Redis-like server from scratch with C/C++.

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• Why build Redis? Two topics to learn from this book: network programming and data structure. The knowledge of network programming can be used to build server side applications that talks with each other. Knowledges of data structures is widely appliable.
• Why from scratch? A quote from Richard Feynman: "What I cannot create, I do not understand". Human understandings are often filled with holes aka "things I don't know I don't know". Build the stuff from scratch is a way to ensure your understanding is complete.
• Why C? There ain't many choices when it comes to interacting with system APIs and implementing basic data structures. The code included in the book is in a minimum and straightforward style, and is readable for readers unfamiliar with C.