9 hours ago
- The author values open source for its transparency, user-focused decisions, thorough documentation, and simplicity.
- Pivotal (and previously VMware) sponsored Redis, allowing it to grow as a pure open source project without commercial pressure.
- The author chose not to start a Redis company to preserve the project's magic and spend time with family, but supported an economic ecosystem around Redis.
- Redis Labs built a strong company with core developers and commercial products, and the author is joining them to work on open source while they focus on managed services.
- The move is expected to increase Redis Labs' contributions to the Redis core, such as memory reduction and key eviction improvements.
- The author expresses gratitude to Pivotal and Redis Labs for supporting the open source community.