The race to replace Redis
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The race to replace Redis
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Re: The race to replace Redis
#2I'd be more interested in the race to build a business model that works with open source and venture funding, myself.
A grand unified theory of software goods funding, if you will.
Re: The race to replace Redis
#3I'd be more interested in the race to build a business model that works with open source and venture funding, myself. A grand unified theory of software goods funding, if you will.
Yep. Been wondering where this is headed with the recent YC batch posts claiming they are gonna be all opensource and make money on cloud offering
Re: The race to replace Redis
#4I'd be more interested in the race to build a business model that works with open source and venture funding, myself. A grand unified theory of software goods funding, if you will.
Why specifically venture funding?
Re: The race to replace Redis
#5For the first time, I know our (Apache Kvrocks, an alternative to Redis on Flash) committer Binbin Wang committed nearly 25% of the commits to the newer Redis version.
You can find his contributor for both at:
Re: The race to replace Redis
#6I'd be more interested in the race to build a business model that works with open source and venture funding, myself. A grand unified theory of software goods funding, if you will.
This is indeed interesting.
The historically 'good' open source companies like Sun got bought but the ones that weren't like Oracle. The selling support model alone does not seem evolutionarily fit for the market.
Now we have these VC-backed 'open source' companies that have a playbook wherein they appear open source at first. But when you dig deeper, you find that the heart of the thing is a closed binary.
The investors are going to want to be paid back somehow. And the business model of VC means that one of two things happens:
1. The company finds a way to 100x the return. Which, if you're a customer, might be a scary prospect.
2. The company makes an amount somewhat lower and, while it would be a good business for a non-VC company, they're considered a zombie by their investors. So, they are killed leaving you as a customer in a bad position.
I therefore trust non-VC backed companies substantially more to keep alignment with their customers long-term.
A workable model could be for instead companies that have legally-enforceable promise not to enshitify their closed sourced product. So that the product will always be aligned with the paying customer. The customer cannot be made the product at a future date.
Re: The race to replace Redis
#7For the first time, I know our (Apache Kvrocks, an alternative to Redis on Flash) committer Binbin Wang committed nearly 25% of the commits to the newer Redis version. You can find his contributor for both at: * https://github.com/apache/kvrocks/graphs/contributors * https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors
And here is an interesting conversation when Binbin came to the Kvrocks community: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks/pull/1581#issuecomment-163...
* Me: @enjoy-binbin Out of curiosity, do you have a fuzzer to test out Kvrocks? Your recent great fixes seem like a combo rather than random findings :D
* Binbin: They were actually random findings.I may be sensitive to this, doing code review and found them (also based on my familiarity with redis)
Re: The race to replace Redis
#8There's also DragonflyDB
Re: The race to replace Redis
#9I'd be more interested in the race to build a business model that works with open source and venture funding, myself. A grand unified theory of software goods funding, if you will.
I think something like https://bigtimelicense.com/ is a good start.
Re: The race to replace Redis
#10I'd be more interested in the race to build a business model that works with open source and venture funding, myself. A grand unified theory of software goods funding, if you will.
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