https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/redis...
Honestly even if Redis public image has not been stellar recently, I know the people that work at Redis, many engineers are there since the start, and I believe they have huge design abilities and can do what is needed to make Redis more useful for the community.
Could you not have stayed separate from them while contributing again?
I don't really hate or care about anyone in this game, but it's a non-trivial move in the game.
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 the Elasticsearch leadership for attempting to fend off AWS and their ilk from absorbing all of the revenues derived from their hard work.
Open source is just a commodity feature for hyperscalers. It's time we stop giving it to them for free.
This is all about power. We're ceding it to trillion dollar companies because we've been trained that "open source" is ethical. Meanwhile, we don't question the ethics of these companies profiting off of this work while charging us absurd margins. None of the hyperscaler infra is open source.
Or, in other words, Valkey is Jenkins here, and Redis is Hudson.
What's the point of spreading informations that are not true? I believe there is a single person that was in Redis and works there now, at least AFAIK. And this person stopped working at Redis long time ago (and was not a core developer). So I'm not understanding who joined ValKey from Redis folks.
Everybody is working at Redis: me, Oran, Yossi, Meir, many others.
It is probably more correct to say a bunch of Redis contributors left the Redis GitHub project and moved over to Valkey.
You can see there are a bunch of contributors listed on this page who seem to predate the fork and who have continued to contribute:
https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/graphs/contributors
Particularly these contributors standout:
https://github.com/enjoy-binbin
Sure. And same for Redis employees who continue to work on the Redis Github project. All my significant contributions to open source have had financial incentives as well.
Are all the open source libraries that Redis depends on [1] also evil? Or are we just focused on declaring Redis competitors evil today?
"redis ltd" the company did not originate redis
"redis ltd" was originally "Garantia Data": a company that offered hosted redis as a service
fundamentally they are/were doing the same thing as AWS/Google: taking an existing open source product they did not originate, and selling hosting for it
they may have hired its creator (several years after he wrote it), and since then changed their name to "redis", but they're not any different to GCP/AWS
other than the complaining about others more successful business models
this is very different to e.g. sentry