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> Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. REDIS tradeoffs have been so widely discussed because many, many engineers disagree with them. REDIS is

> Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. REDIS tradeoffs have been so widely discussed because many, many engineers disagree with them. REDIS is so lowly regarded that some companies ban it completely, making their engineers choose between memcached or something more enterprisey (hazelcast these days, Coherence some time ago).

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throwaway7783 2y ago
Why is Redis regarded so lowly? Now, Redis Search, I understand. Very buggy, search index misses records and doesn't tell that it missed them and so on. Core Redis is a solid piece of technology, afaik
- Joel_Mckay 2y ago
  Probably the same reasons dynamically-scaled Aerospike is not as popular. Redis primarily has a reputation of just "caching" stuff in memory, but probably the rates of CVE in the distributed clients soured some peoples opinions. Distributed systems is hard, and what seems like a trivial choice about design constraints can quickly balloon in cost. =3
do_not_redeem 2y ago
This comment has a lot of words but says nothing. "Many engineers" disagree with every piece of software, and "some companies" ban every piece of software. Why are you writing Redis in all caps like it's an acronym? Reminds me of those old dog C programmers who write long rants about RUST with inaccuracies that belie the fact they've never actually used it.
- Xiol32 2y ago
  Same vibes as people who write SystemD.
- karmakaze 2y ago
  If anything it's ReDiS, Remote Dictionary Server. Also pronounced to sound like 'remote', unlike the color of its logo (which would be spelled Reddis).
virtue3 2y ago
Redis is probably one of the most well written pieces of software I’ve ever looked at. The source code is magnificent.
- pphysch 2y ago
  The original maintainer went on to write a sci-fi novel
- foobarian 2y ago
  I second this, specifically the geohash code is a work of art.
tayo42 2y ago
I work at a company that banned redis after an outage. kind of blunt, it feels like such an amateur decision to have made. So reactionary instead of trying to learn it. It's large popular internet company too
- secondcoming 2y ago
  Was it in the early days of redis? I have a dedicated server that's running an instance of redis on each of the 32 cores and it's been up for over a year now. Each core is doing about 30k QPS

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throwaway7783 2y ago

Why is Redis regarded so lowly? Now, Redis Search, I understand. Very buggy, search index misses records and doesn't tell that it missed them and so on. Core Redis is a solid piece of technology, afaik

Joel_Mckay 2y ago
Probably the same reasons dynamically-scaled Aerospike is not as popular. Redis primarily has a reputation of just "caching" stuff in memory, but probably the rates of CVE in the distributed clients soured some peoples opinions. Distributed systems is hard, and what seems like a trivial choice about design constraints can quickly balloon in cost. =3

do_not_redeem 2y ago

This comment has a lot of words but says nothing. "Many engineers" disagree with every piece of software, and "some companies" ban every piece of software. Why are you writing Redis in all caps like it's an acronym? Reminds me of those old dog C programmers who write long rants about RUST with inaccuracies that belie the fact they've never actually used it.

Xiol32 2y ago
Same vibes as people who write SystemD.
karmakaze 2y ago
If anything it's ReDiS, Remote Dictionary Server. Also pronounced to sound like 'remote', unlike the color of its logo (which would be spelled Reddis).

virtue3 2y ago

Redis is probably one of the most well written pieces of software I’ve ever looked at. The source code is magnificent.

pphysch 2y ago
The original maintainer went on to write a sci-fi novel
foobarian 2y ago
I second this, specifically the geohash code is a work of art.

tayo42 2y ago

I work at a company that banned redis after an outage. kind of blunt, it feels like such an amateur decision to have made. So reactionary instead of trying to learn it. It's large popular internet company too

secondcoming 2y ago
Was it in the early days of redis? I have a dedicated server that's running an instance of redis on each of the 32 cores and it's been up for over a year now. Each core is doing about 30k QPS