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by malux85 3481 days ago
You probably get this a lot, but I'm going to say it anyway - Thank you for redis, it's an amazing bit of software and I use it in virtually every project.

Not only is it useful, but the source code is pure poetry to read.

Thank you again

3 comments

Wow I like your POV about things. Ok seriously, thanks a lot, it's great to do something that can be useful. Thanks for using it.
Just to pile on the praise, I've learned more about the C language reading Redis' source code than I've learned from two books, a university course, and dozens of blog posts combined. Keep doing what you're doing, it is an inspiration.
OMG that's awesome. And a bit surprising since Redis internals could be much much better, if we only could care a bit less about memory / CPU / copy-on-write issues, and... a bit more time :-)
Redis is awesome, thanks and now seeing all this praise I'm going to have to go and check out the source code!
I want to second your thanks.

Redis itself is great, but the fact that it keeps getting better is what truly amazes me. There have been features added that I never though I would use, that I find myself building into and on top of later.

As someone who created & maintains an open source project (not nearly as important or popular as redis), thank you for your comment. You'd be surprised how few compliments people get on OSS projects (it seems to be roughly one heartfelt, sincere comment per 20,000 users in my case) and they just make you feel amazing. Seriously, the last one I had made my week.