When some software I was responsible for started melting down under a load 10x bigger than it could handle, I was able to fix it by doing an emergency rewrite o

When some software I was responsible for started melting down under a load 10x bigger than it could handle, I was able to fix it by doing an emergency rewrite of the data storage part using Redis with Lua scripting. This was back when that feature was still experimental, so I was using unstable tarballs in production -- and yet everything worked perfectly! The emergency was fixed in a single long day. It was a miracle. Thanks for all the great things you've done with Redis! "Beautiful" describes it well.