About

The Little Redis Book is a free book introducing Redis.

The book was written by Karl Seguin, with Perry Neal's assistance.

If you liked this book, maybe you'll also like The Little MongoDB Book.

License

The book is freely distributed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license.

Translations

• Russian
• Italian - pdf

Formats

The book is written in Markdown and converted to PDF using pandoc. A few LaTex specific commands have been placed in the Markdown file to help with PDF-generation (namely for the title page and to create page breaks between chapters).

To generate PDF, Kindle and EPUB formats, download and install pandoc, a universal document converter.

Generating the PDF

pandoc includes markdown2pdf to generate the PDF using a variation of https://github.com/claes/pandoc-templates:

#!/bin/sh
paper=a4paper
hmargin=3cm
vmargin=3cm
fontsize=11pt

mainfont=Verdana
sansfont=Tahoma
monofont="Courier New"
columns=onecolumn
geometry=portrait
nohyphenation=true


markdown2pdf --xetex --template=template/xetex.template \
-V paper=$paper -V hmargin=$hmargin -V vmargin=$vmargin \
-V mainfont="$mainfont" -V sansfont="$sansfont" -V monofont="$monofont" \
-V geometry=$geometry -V columns=$columns -V fontsize=$fontsize \
-V nohyphenation=$nohyphenation en/redis.md -o redis.pdf

Generating the EPUB

Use the following command (modified from the one found at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3502033) to generate the EPUB:

pandoc -f markdown -t epub --epub-metadata=en/metadata.xml \
--template=template/xetex.template -V paper=$paper \
-V hmargin=$hmargin -V vmargin=$vmargin -V mainfont="$mainfont" \
-V sansfont="$sansfont" -V monofont="$monofont" -V geometry=$geometry \
-V columns=$columns -V fontsize=$fontsize -V nohyphenation=$nohyphenation \
en/redis.md -o redis.epub

Title Image

A PSD of the title image is included. The font used is Comfortaa.