Book: Build Your Own Redis with C/C++

What it does

Why build Redis? Two topics to learn: network programming and data structures. Why from scratch? A quote from Richard Feynman: "What I cannot create, I do not understand". Why C? C is widely used for system programming and infrastructure software.

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