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Post by nine_k »

benatkin wrote: post #56

I appreciate redis, but believe me when I say, I never considered using redis under anything but its original license, and I am just as grateful for valkey as I am for redis. It is very easy to move and I will keep moving anytime there is a license switch-up like this. I prefer a fork rather than an alternative, but if a good fork hadn't emerged, I would have moved to something different with its own technical advant…

What parts of the new licence are particularly critical for this decision? Just curious.

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Post by antirez »

block_dagger wrote: post #103
antirez wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

Please keep writing, I want to read your fiction. I cal tell you have style from your blog entries. Lean into the style and readers will love you for it.

Thanks! I can write better in Italian :D But appreciate that you found the blog post to have the right tone.

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Post by codazoda »

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,…

Would Game Programming Patterns help someone who wants to build a slot machine? I’ve built a wall mounted machine for my home but I never got the software side done. I think a book could help but most of them cover very different mechanics these days.

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Post by reconditerose »

PieUser wrote: post #9

Will be interesting to see how the Valkey community reacts to this

Valkey maintainer here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I worked with antirez a bit before he left the project in 2020, and I still look fondly back on that time since he was a wonderful person and he helped me learn a lot. I wish he had considered coming to work with Valkey instead of Redis, but maybe we'll find some some way to work together that benefits both communities.

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Post by MisterTea »

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,…

It's because the audiences for each are different. The audience of programs are CPU cores that have a well defined set of behaviors. An i7 isn't going to one day decide it doesn't like the SHL instruction or offended by having to perform too many MOVs.

The human by comparison is more taxing to write for as your brain is the compiler and checker for the instructions of your language. You write, proof read, correct, proof read again, correct more, delete, re-write, etc. I get why AI tools for writing are in high demand. Hell, sometimes I spend what feels like forever writing some of the comments here on HN as I have to compress a lot of thought into a few, clearly written sentences.

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Post by antirez »

simonw wrote: post #101
antirez wrote: post #82

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"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" I can understand that, but the thing about the BSD license is that such value never gets lost. People are able to fork, and after a fork for the original project to still lead will be require to put something more on the table. Inside Redis it was tried…

I'm embarrassed to admit that I hadn't fully taken into account that those contributions do at least remain under the BSD license and hence stay open under those original terms. Thanks for reminding me of that.

It's not an error at all, Simon! Because different setups in the past lead exactly to the scenario that you depicted. Examples: projects that requested signed copyright transfer for each patch (even GNU projects required this). But also what is more insidious is that very complex projects, while sometimes BSD or similarly licensed, were made completely proprietary (and not under the MongoDB / Redis circumstances, but just to turn proprietary for other reasons) but they were so complex internally that basically you can't do anything with the code, without paying like... 50 engineers to study it for six months. So it is an actual danger, but not in the case of BSD + projects that have an acceptable barrier to entry to be understood, fixed, modified, ...

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Post by some1else »

simonw wrote: post #96
some1else wrote: post #92

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Where would a Redis vector store play a part though? Maybe you'd load up relevant embeddings for a particular user while they're interacting with their dataset, to make their responses quicker? You've already spent the effort on hydrating their data out of persistence though. I guess step one is likely being a more trusted alternative to the in-memory vector solutions like HNSW, Faiss, and a potentially faster engine…

It's exactly that. Redis is an in-memory data structure server that you can outsource index-style operations to. Vector similarity is a type of index search. I think it's an exact fit for Redis.

Cool. Redis in front of Postgres always brought peace-of-mind that will likely be welcome for the vector data use-case.

P.s.: Appreciate the llm command line tool.

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Post by justin66 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #85

I've never had a use for Redis, but I was very happy to read this, and sincerely wish him the very best of luck. He seems to have his priorities straight. I am 62, and write more software, now, than I ever did. This time, though, it's for free. I make it a point to treat my projects as "top-shelf" professional-grade shipping software, as opposed to the "hobby-grade" that I see from many folks I know that write non-co…

> I make it a point to treat my projects as "top-shelf" professional-grade shipping software, as opposed to the "hobby-grade" that I see from many folks I know that write non-commercial software.

What are the practical differences in the end result?

My mind leapt to documentation, but I bet you meant more than that.

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Post by declan_roberts »

Welcome back to the project!

I love to see original creators continue to work on their projects until the very end, e.g. Linus and D. Richard Hipp of sqlite. I think this produces the best quality software over the long term.

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Post by benatkin »

simonw wrote: post #104
sroussey wrote: post #99

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Ah thanks. Is this by AWS or similar?

Yes: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc... > Industry participants, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. are supporting Valkey.

Interesting to see Google there. They have LevelDB.
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