<antirez>
2 days ago
- Redis is celebrating its 5th anniversary since its initial HN announcement.
- The project's success is attributed to great coders who adopted it early and contributed patches and ideas.
- The Redis community consists of outstanding coders whose skills are not indicated by social media followers or GitHub repos.
- Redis aims to explore unconventional design ideas and popularized concepts like data structures in key-value stores and scripting in databases.
- The project will deprecate weak features and pursue diverse goals, such as focusing on API improvements in Redis 3.2.
- The author remains motivated to continue work on Redis, seeing it as an ongoing journey, not driven by external pressures.