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Antirez returns to Redis! (Changelog Interviews #631)

March 07, 2025 1:33:59 17.83 MB ( 117.67 MB less) Downloads: 0

Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what’s going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector embeddings in Redis, and some good ’ol LLM inference discussions.

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