> A couple of my internet stranger friends and chatGPT says this number was chosen by redis developers post a massive benchmarking. The consideration was trade-off such as performance vs blocking, memory management and avoiding overhead.
Deep dive is a colloquialism in english, at least in the US.
We are going to see a lot of these about Redis since the source has so many comments. Basically re-stealing Salvatore's work again, unpriced asset.
"deep dive" has been around for quite some time https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all&q=%2...
From an explanation analogy perspective people typically say something like “we’re just going to touch the surface”.
Terms like this one, “alignment”, “low hanging fruit”, all not super accurate but established industry terms.
> "Deep dive". When is a dive shallow? Isn't a dive implicitly deep?