Like many others, I'm also in the early stages of love with redis. It works for so many cases, and is so simple to setup that I see myself just dropping it in

Like many others, I'm also in the early stages of love with redis. It works for so many cases, and is so simple to setup that I see myself just dropping it in everywhere. But my favorite feature of Redis when I was starting out was probably antirez himself. He is extremely helpful and a great open source project leader. The documentation (especially the tutorial-like wiki articles) is great, antirez helps out tons of people on the mailing list and in IRC, and his rate of output is incredible (I believe RC1's original release date actually got moved up, and he hit the new date right on the nose). Gives me a lot of confidence that this awesome project is here to stay.