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The title comes across like these are faults of Redis and that if you're not particularly careful about you'll shoot yourself in the foot.

> I'm not sure how to make it more clear that I'm criticising myself

"Mistakes I made while building applications on Redis"

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Thanks, I'll update the post and link to your comment for attribution.

"Footgun" unfortunately does have some "prior art" as blaming unexpected behavior of a technology.

PS Love the aesthetic of your blog!

Interesting. I always assumed it to be something that’s easy to use insecurely (or to cause a self-DoS) but thinking about it, I suppose a "footgun" is made for shooting oneself in the foot.

Ah, that's a good point. I explicitly didn't call Redis a "footgun" at any point, because of what that word means. However the post is tagged with `footguns` and perhaps that contributed to the misunderstanding. I'll remove the tag.

(I also wonder if "shoot yourself in the foot" is an idiom that doesn't translate well; at least in the UK I think it's fairly well understood to put blame squarely on the person doing the shooting, rather than the firearm they happen to be holding at the time)

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