by nixcraft on 5/9/23, 8:07 AM with 112 comments
by antirez on 5/10/23, 9:38 PM
1. After the TI99/4A, that is indeed the first machine I used, I started to write serious code in a ZX Spectrum. Then, a few years later, I received my first MS-DOS machine: make sure to Google it if you are not from Italy, it was an Olivetti PC1 Prodest, the most strange MS-DOS compatible system EVER.
2. In Milan I was not fired, I quit myself to return in Sicily.
3. When I posted my first message in BUGTRAQ, it was davidw (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidw) that helped me.
4. It was often said that the MERZ port was for Alessia Merz stupidity. This is wrong: we liked the showgirl (I and my friend Oscar), and we liked the fact she replied lightly in the TV shows, she just tried to have fun, and for us this resonated with having fun while programming stuff without a purpose: in short HackValue. That's why the Redis port is MERZ on the phone keyboard.
5. It is true that for many months I continued hacking on Redis even if I didn't receive so great feedbacks, but back then one rarely hacked on OSS software hoping for success or money as a main outcome. It was just that day-to-day jobs mostly sucked, and you wanted something better, more interesting to hack on. At least for many of us the drive was just that. So I continued hacking on Redis even when it surpassed by a lot our LLOOGG needs.
6. The first design sketch of the Twitter Redis-based timeline cache was made by Rob Pointer (the author of the eggrdrop IRC bot!) and myself at Twitter HQ, on some random whiteboard.
7. WOHPE turned out to be one of the most read sci-fi books in Italy, among the ones written by Italian sci-fi authors in recent years. Initially the readers were mostly programmers but now a lot of sci-fi enthusiasts are reading it. It's very strange that certain things written in the book now are becoming real fears, or even happened. For instance multiple readers of the English edition believe that this is likely the first accurate description of "prompt engineer": https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1635022116654563334
8. Now I'm writing a new book but also programming again. I hope to continue with both the activities in parallel.
by ilrwbwrkhv on 5/10/23, 7:00 PM
> In February 2009, antirez's friend David Welton helped him share Redis to the world on Hacker News. The response was pretty muted; apart from David, only four people responded. Three of them said there were already similar projects out there, and only one person responded positively and offered to help.
So don't worry if you don't immediately get traction.
by m3047 on 5/10/23, 6:00 PM
In the PLC world there is a notion of "tags". These are values pushed or poked by PLCs with some kind of external (networked) access. They are essentially network-wide global variables. If you think about it for a little while this looks like key+value store. There are some common operations with tags: on/off, counters, bit fields, along with static/updating values. There is a notion that if a tag hasn't been updated in a while it is "stale" or unreliable.
Although my POC deployment of RKVDNS (DNS Proxy for Redis https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns/) revolves around SecOps / DevOps / DevSecOps, my horizon is SCADA and rationalizing the federation (edge) vs centralization (cloud) dilemma for observables, leveraging the reality that these days even (Purdue) Level 1 has DNS.
by wolframhempel on 5/11/23, 7:20 AM
Now I understand that the people that are passionate about creating OSS are often less passionate about business and vice versa - and that some of the most successful tech companies have the Jobs/Wozniak dynamic - but it still feels like an imbalance worth addressing.
But maybe I'm just cynical and lacking idealism. How's everyone else feeling about this?
by lagrange77 on 5/10/23, 10:29 PM
> Artificial Intelligence will completely reshape our society very soon. If a universal income is not provided in a timely fashion (as AI makes many workers no longer relevant) we are going to be in big trouble.
I think about that very often these days. Governments worldwide must act on that now. Because even if they'll start a legislative process to implement it, it will take a long time and we are running out of time.
by rahoulb on 5/11/23, 8:17 AM
Back when I discovered it (probably through Resque), my mantra was "NoSQL is fraud" as I was yet to find a NoSQL database that I trusted with my data (yes, I know Redis isn't strictly a NoSQL database - or at least wasn't at the time).
But reading the docs and looking at how it worked, it shone through how carefully thought out and well-crafted it was. And this was without even looking at the source code (I haven't done any C for years and doubt I would understand it anyway).
It's amazing how that excellence shines through beyond the code and it's still one of my go-to tools (I mainly work with Rails, so can't avoid it to be fair) - so thank you again Salvatore.
by ftxbro on 5/10/23, 7:13 PM
by boffinAudio on 5/10/23, 12:11 PM
Imagine we have a network of LOAD81 users who share Lua bytecode instead of HTML .. hmm ..
by frankwiles on 5/10/23, 10:00 PM
by mlry on 5/12/23, 7:09 PM
[0] http://antirez.com/news/108 [1] https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
by chucke on 5/11/23, 7:48 PM
And obviously, antirez and redis rock!
by phreq on 5/11/23, 6:21 AM
by nutanc on 5/11/23, 5:40 AM
[1] https://twitter.com/nutanc/status/1656533992785723392?s=20
by pastacacioepepe on 5/10/23, 8:07 PM
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