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I honestly think most people don't care. Yes, a HN bubble care, and might influence what a company chooses. But most people will just reach for Redis by default

I honestly think most people don't care. Yes, a HN bubble care, and might influence what a company chooses. But most people will just reach for Redis by default, none the wiser of all the drama in some small circles.

Kwpolska 1y ago
Linux distros can help pick a winner. If installing Valkey is just `apt install valkey`, but Redis requires compilation/extra repos to get going, people will just choose Valkey. See also: MariaDB.
- gkbrk 1y ago
  Or better, if installing valkey is both `apt install valkey` and also `apt install redis`. Which is exactly what some distros are doing.
- fnord123 1y ago
  Is there a useful metric to see if that's really the case? Using the distos package manager means you're at the mercy of the packager for getting new versions. Docker is just as easy and doesn't suffer from this. And building from source gives you full control. Even when using test services, using docker works best since all the Devs will be on the same version instead of splitting between Debian, fedora, and brew versions.
motorest 1y ago
> I honestly think most people don't care. I don't think this opinion is realistic or grounded in reality. Any company goes through license reviews when discussing which project to adopt. You may not care what software you run on a weekend project, but everyone working in a professional setting goes through a long bureaucratic song and dance act with legal representatives to verify if they can or cannot use a dependency.