I think this also points to something a bit more subtle, but obvious now that we're looking back on this in hindsight an calling antirez a legendary hacker. Th

I think this also points to something a bit more subtle, but obvious now that we're looking back on this in hindsight an calling antirez a legendary hacker. That is, sometimes it's not what you do but how you do it. Redis would not be where it is today were it not for his incredible effort to keep the quality high and the code performant. It's entirely true that a lot of what redis did was already done at the time it was released. It's also true that in the end that's not what mattered.