Redis and the Cost of Ambition

(charlesleifer.com)

23 points | by maxloh 9 hours ago

2 comments

  • sc68cal 1 hour ago
    I do agree with the feeling that Redis started to add more and more features as time went on. A lot of that is because the time and cost to stand up a dedicated service (like Kafka, RabbitMq, etc etc) was higher than just putting more data into Redis.

    While I agree with the theme that Redis has become more and more complicated and had more features added to it, as part of a monetization push by Redis Inc, it's understandable.

    Especially since there are plenty of other posts on HN titled "Just use Postgres" for everything. So, why does Postgres get a pass on being a message queue, distributed lock manager, JSON document store, and vector database, while Redis is not allowed to?

  • tao_oat 1 hour ago
    There was really good discussion of this article on lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition