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> However I’m not living into the illusion that I got everything right in the first release, so it will take months (or years?) of iteration to really reach the operational simplicity I’m targeting.

It's always refreshing to hear such good programmers acknowledging how hard building complex systems is.

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And this from antirez who writes such excellent programms, Redis runs in several companies I've been, without ever crashing, making any trouble - most people I've met forget they have Redis running because it just works and works and works. Can't praise that piece of code high enough.

Indeed, we have had redis running in production for four years now and I can't remember a single crash happening. If something goes wrong in our stack redis is the last thing we check. Antirez should write a http web server :-)

+100 'Antirez should write a http web server'

... and this is a real professional talk. I'm tired of newbies being baselessly overconfident...

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