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Post by antirez »

munificent wrote: post #64

> However, during the “writing years” (I’m still writing, by the way), I often returned to coding, as a way to take breaks from intense writing sessions (writing is the only mental activity I found to be a great deal more taxing than coding) This has been my experience too. With both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters", writing the code was a joy while writing the prose was hard work. Gratifying,…

Totally agree. It's very hard, especially since when writing fiction, and the kind of fiction I wanted to write, there are a lot of things you doubt about yourself: is my style as good as I wish? Are my stories and my characters strong enough, with the right motivations? And I bet many of this ingredients are still there even when writing technical books if the goal is to do a very good job. Teaching in written form, with a book, is like a long story that must fit, chapter after chapter, sentence after sentence.

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antirez wrote: post #34
ksec wrote: post #31

Welcome Back. Antirez! ( Surprised This blog post is submitted just 2 min after it was posted ) I am wondering if Valkey has moved so far off from Redis the codebase couldn't be merged again? I am reading the top contributor to ValKey are now from Tencent Cloud, Google, Amazon and Ericsson. Could someone help with me with SSPL, is it essentially AGPL v3 except instead of releasing the source code only you have to rel…

Hi ksec! Thanks. ValKey and Redis are not so different codebases so far, but I have the feeling they will diverge more and more. I hope that at least at protocol level they will stay compatible, to be able to use the same clients. I doubt the projects can be rejoined, because the backers have different goals. Amazon / Google / Alibaba / ... wants to keep using it without any revenue sharing, and Redis instead does no…

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Post by benatkin »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #54
echelon wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> why not join Valkey? Valkey is making it possible for hyperscalers to continue appropriating open source and charging fat margins to everyone else. In a sense, Valkey is the bad guy here. And just look at all the support Valkey is getting from Amazon, Google, Oracle, etc. They're perpetuating the problem. The same thing happened with Elasticsearch. Unfortunately ICs without decision-making power started lambasting…

Many of the Redis developers left to form Valkey, so that they could keep working on the Open Source project they wanted to work on. Valkey is continuing a project that was released under Open Source terms, after the original company rugpulled the Open Source project in favor of a proprietary one. Or, in other words, Valkey is Jenkins here, and Redis is Hudson.

Indeed. The project had continuity. The trademark exited the building.

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Post by simonw »

That vector sets design outlined towards the end of the article is delightful - it's exactly the kind of API design I appreciate from Redis over the years: simple, elegant and feels obviously correct to me.

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Post by antirez »

simonw wrote: post #74

That vector sets design outlined towards the end of the article is delightful - it's exactly the kind of API design I appreciate from Redis over the years: simple, elegant and feels obviously correct to me.

Very happy to read this from you, Simon!

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Post by braco_alva »

munificent wrote: post #64

> However, during the “writing years” (I’m still writing, by the way), I often returned to coding, as a way to take breaks from intense writing sessions (writing is the only mental activity I found to be a great deal more taxing than coding) This has been my experience too. With both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters", writing the code was a joy while writing the prose was hard work. Gratifying,…

"Game Programming Patterns" has been of huge help throughout my career and it's always my go to recommendation for new game programmers and reading your comment makes me feel even more grateful that you made the effort of writing it, thanks for writing such a great book!

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Post by electroly »

world2vec wrote: post #40

Is Claude really that much better than ChatGPT? I Use ChatGPT Plus on a daily basis and have no complaints but is it worth cancelling it and get one for Claude?

I was in the same boat. I gave Claude a try, just to see what I was missing, and I ended up never returning to ChatGPT except to generate pictures (which Claude can't do). Give it a try for a month. It's worth a shot. They have improvements beyond just generally being smarter. For instance, Claude can _edit_ a prior code block rather than just emitting a new one. It can build React components and show them to you, rather than just giving you the code.

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Post by bhouston »

echelon wrote: post #55
bhouston wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Valkey also has the backing of The Linux Foundation. So maybe it just has a lot of backing in general. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc... BTW are you an employee of Redis? You seem to have created this account just to reply to me.

The Linux Foundation is a mouthpiece of the closed source, trillion dollar hyperscalers. They're using the deceptive good feels to stop you from questioning their fat margins. Why isn't the entire stack of AWS infra open source, again? Open source has been twisted against us. The big players know where the money and value and power accumulates.

> Why isn't the entire stack of AWS infra open source, again?

This line of argument is untethered from reality.

The Linux Foundation actually is the parent of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/about/join/), which actually is infrastructure for cloud services: containers, envoy, etcd, helm, istio, Kubernetes, prometheus, etc.

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Post by jcgrillo »

simonw wrote: post #68

For me, the license change upset me mainly for two reasons: 1. Many people had contributed their efforts to the Redis project for free - both in terms of code but also in advocacy, writing tutorials, publishing example code etc - and when they did that it was under the understanding that project would remain under the same open source license. It honestly felt like a betrayal of trust. 2. From a purely selfish point…

The question of what constitutes a "service" seems very murky, and although it's obviously not the intention of all these source-available, BSL style things, in a dark timeline it seems like there's a lot of room for litigious actors to behave very badly. The uncertainty is what makes it scary, I'd also like a lot more clarity.

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Post by fishtoaster »

I'm really interested in this bit: "the fracture with the community is not about licensing, or at least it’s not mainly about licensing"

I wish he'd elaborated a bit more on what he thought it was about. My understanding is that it's 100% about the license. That's certainly why I'll reach for valkey instead of redis next time I need it. That's also what I've heard from everyone else in a similar position. What else would the community split be about?

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