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Introduction to the GitHub Search Project

Introduction to the GitHub Search Project

Get an overview of the GitHub statistics project that we’re going to build in this chapter.

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We’ll build our first complete project by using Redis operations and GitHub APIs.

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The project aims to create a search engine for GitHub that searches the GitHub data for repositories, issues, and users. We’ll use Redis to store some frequent data and actually see in real life how Redis improves the overall performance of the application by introducing the timers for each response. Redis will act as a cache for GitHub API responses, reducing the need for frequent network calls. For simplicity, we’ll only return the number of results fetched from the GitHub API instead of returning ...