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Redis is one of the few examples we have of truly beautiful software: A simple and elegant rock-solid performer that just works like water. The updates over th
by mythz 13y ago
Redis is one of the few examples we have of truly beautiful software: A simple and elegant rock-solid performer that just works like water.
The updates over the years have been useful and has tastefully kept with the true spirit of Redis - thanks for all your hard work Salvatore!
- antirez 13y agoThanks for the kind words mythz! And for your important role in the Redis community.
- xfax 13y agoCouldn't agree more. Redis code base is like a best-practice document.
- a-priori 13y agoI agree. There are a few other pieces of software I'd put in the same class... here's two examples I can think of now: * Varnish (the "Notes from the architect" are a great read: https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes) * QEMU (actually, pretty much anything Fabrice Bellard has touched)
- ksec 13y agoPostgre
- bch 13y agoTcl[1], which @antirez has also held up as incredibly lucid code. [1] http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/timeline?y=ci http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/timeline?y=ci
- thijsc 13y agohaproxy probably qualifies too.
- toomuchtodo 13y agonginx
- cnlwsu 13y agosqlite! (love this http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html)
- a-priori 13y agoGreat example! Wish I'd included it in my original list.
- malkia 13y agozlib, lua & luajit