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by awill88 1582 days ago
“meeting customers where they were”

I’m a total AWS fanboy, but even I cringe when I read that superficial, customer-centric sound bite. You know who meets people where they are? FOSS maintainers.

“Also as far as I know one of the lead committers to Redis is from AWS”

Conveniently cryptic, what does from AWS mean? Do they still work there? Did they specialize in log replication?

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Disclosure: I work for AWS, but I don't work on Redis or managed services based on Redis.

Madelyn Olson, at present an AWS employee, is one of the members of the Redis core team [1]. The invitation was extended because she had "been actively involved in Redis development for several years, contributing numerous changes throughout Redis, including bug fixes and features."

[1] https://redis.com/blog/redis-core-team-update/

Aren't FOSS maintainers famously "my way or the highway"?