Antirez returns to Redis! (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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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Featuring:

• Salvatore Sanfilippo – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Deep Seek on Ollama
• Claude Sonnet 3.7 is out!
• - We are destroying software

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Augment Code (00:01:14)

https://www.augmentcode.com

3. Start the show (00:04:23)

4. We're still talking Redis (00:06:02)

5. Employed full-time to work on Redis (00:23:18)

6. Happy or sad with Redis? (00:26:27)

7. Redis has endured license changes (00:29:36)

8. Sponsor: Retool (00:40:21)

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9. Back to AGPL?? (00:43:22)

10. Who is Redis "the company"? (00:48:46)

11. AI next? Vector embeddings! (00:55:21)

12. Antirez schools us on how the frontier models work (00:59:07)

13. Don't waste your precious tokens! (01:05:23)

14. What does AI unlock for Redis users? (01:07:13)

15. Sponsor: Temporal (01:09:30)

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16. Generating math/word quotes with AI (01:11:51)

17. Antirez is a Claude Sonnet fan (01:18:42)

18. How Adam used Claude recently (01:21:59)

19. Antirez's thoughts on AI's impact on our future (01:25:09)

20. Wrapping up (01:27:24)

21. Closing thoughts and stuff (01:28:15)

22. ++ Teaser (01:31:52)