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aravindet | 4 years ago

Am I the only one that misses the honesty and heart of Antirez's blog posts from back in the day?

This is basically a low-quality ad for Redis Enterprise, focusing on the shortcomings of their main competitor: open source Redis. Except the folks trying to benefit from Redis' shortcomings is also in control of that project... what could go wrong?

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legutierr|4 years ago

Until I read your comment, I had no idea that antirez left the Redis project last year.[0]

> I write code in order to express myself, and I consider what I code an artifact, rather than just something useful to get things done. I would say that what I write is useful just as a side effect, but my first goal is to make something that is, in some way, beautiful. In essence, I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer. Now I’m asked more and more, by the circumstances created by a project that became so important, to express myself less and to maintain the project more. And this is indeed exactly what Redis needs right now. But this is not what I want to do, and I stretched myself enough during the past years.

I imagine that this is a common sentiment on HN that many of us have felt from time to time. Good for him that he was able to act on it. I'm looking forward to seeing what else he produces in the future; Salvatore is a true genius.

[0] http://antirez.com/news/133

reconditerose|4 years ago

The open source project is technically maintained by a separate group, https://redis.io/topics/governance, which just happens to include a lot of people from Redis ltd. Redis ltd. should definitely do a better job at documenting features without it coming across as an ad for their paid offering.

hdjjhhvvhga|4 years ago

I think it is a good quality ad as they don't present Redis Enterprise as the only alternative.

Iqramustafa45|4 years ago

Yeah, i am agree with you

simonebrunozzi|4 years ago

Yep. Fully agree with you.

__alexs|4 years ago

I don't miss the weird misogynistic elements of his writing at all.

It's a shame that technical blogging in general has faded away so much though.