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Redis is forked

Where do we go from here?

Of course, in the heat of the generative AI landscape, the monkey’s paw curled, the over-leveraged business decided they needed to actually make money, and they changed the license, ostensibly so that AWS and other large-scale cloud vendors couldn’t sell it as a product offering. It seems like the new, corporate Redis is no longer for me or my personal projects, which is ironic given that my interests lie squarely in the vector search and generative AI spaces. Fortunately, in redis/valkey/redict codebases, one thing that is still a constant is that whenever there is a ping, you can always expect a quiet, resounding pong, and in that regard, with the current energy around open-source, particularly in the ML space, I’m optimistic.

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