The End of the Redis Adventure • Hacker News Board

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by JamesSwift » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:25 PM UTC

Dang.

I say this frequently both online and when discussing system design with newer devs, but will repeat here: of all the production issues I've debugged, the culprit has has never been redis. In fact, redis has been a critical piece of achieving cost-effective scaling. It is one of only two pieces of software (along with postgres) that I blindly recommend without any caveats. From following along here and on your blog about how you approach things and think about the software, I think its clear that you and your vision for the project are a large factor of why it has been so reliable.

Thank you antirez!

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by kissgyorgy » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:25 PM UTC

wolco wrote: post #3

I would love a story on "I don’t like much what the underground programming world became in recent years" What could he mean? What underground programming world is he talking about?

Probably the same which was the reason Guido left Python as BDFL.

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by tuyguntn » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:26 PM UTC

wolco wrote: post #3

I would love a story on "I don’t like much what the underground programming world became in recent years" What could he mean? What underground programming world is he talking about?

I am assuming low level systems in commercial software systems, would like to hear from @antirez :)

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by rooam-dev » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:26 PM UTC

> ... what I write is useful just as a side effect, but my first goal is to make something that is, in some way, beautiful ...

I love beautiful code too, however if it's not useful, then the beauty fades quickly for me. What's the point?

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by p2501 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:29 PM UTC

As a redis user for more than 8 years, i just want to say thank you. I had embedded redis 2.8 on small IoT system with 200mhz/64Mb of ram to huge cluster as a message bus (redis-as-kafka pattern). Want a shared memory with a type system? Use redis. Want a queue? Use redis. Want something easy to mock, with an API in all major ecosystems? Use redis.

Thanks for your work :)

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by stephc_int13 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:30 PM UTC

Antirez is an inspiration, for me at least. Not only because of what he achieved, Redis is a very nice piece of tech, but also because of his programming style.

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by hkt » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:30 PM UTC

I can think of few other programmers who have contributed so much, and ever fewer who have signed off in a way that was so filled with dignity. What a guy.

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by leesalminen » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:31 PM UTC

Thank you for such a great piece of software, Antirez. Redis has been an integral piece of my stack for years now.

I, too, am leaving the company I founded soon and have mixed emotions about it. I certainly don’t enjoy the monotonous nature of maintaining software and yearn for those early creative days.

Best of luck to you in the future! Looking forward to seeing what you create next.

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by mxyzpt1k » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:31 PM UTC

Thank you. Redis has been the nervous system of my main project for the last eight years.

Re: The End of the Redis Adventure

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Post by chii » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

koolba wrote: post #4

@antirez - Thank you for Redis! It's been a joy to use across so many projects. > However I never wanted to be a software maintainer. And nothing say that you have to be. There's this perverted view that anytime someone creates a popular FOSS project, they need to dedicate every waking minute to maintaining it. That's neither economically feasible nor psychologically reasonable. > Redis was the most stressful thing I…

> "underground programming world"

it's where you program in a basement.