Redis VS Riak

Redis - real time data storage with different data structures in a cache

[0] https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/CONTRIBUTING.md

Yeah, I think a key point is that Salvatore Sanfilippo, the original developer, maintainer and principle contributor[1] for 11 years, was not a founder of Redis Labs. He joined as an employee in 2015 but resigned in 2020. Perhaps he has equity in Redis Labs, but it's not clear he stands to profit at all from this switch.

[1] https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors

Cache: a Redis cache

I'm curious about something: I suppose Salvatore still owns the copyright for most of the code? The old license does include his copyright, up to 2020: https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/7.2/COPYING So I think this change couldn't have been done without his explicit consent? Or did he transferred his rights to RedisLabs or a foundation?

Redis.io no longer mentions open source.

They have still not changed meta description on their page. It still says it is open source ^^

view-source:https://redis.io/

First they break lolwut (https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/12074) and now this.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841284

Redis Inc. is moving the https://github.com/redis/redis/ project away from the three part BSD license to a dual license using two non-OSI approved license. This comes after previous comment from them saying that "... the Redis core license, which is and will always be licensed under the 3-Clause- BSD".

> They get paid for it. Don't try to spin this as if it's someone people working on it in their spare time out of the goodness of their heart. It's just their job.

No, you can't have this both ways. I'm the main contributor from AWS, and I've worked many times on weekends because I care about open source. I like helping people, I don't need to be paid to do it. Many of the AWS folks that made changes were normal engineers that were excited to be part of Redis. https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/10419 and https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/8621 are both examples of features someone from AWS built in their free time. We're all upset about this. Not because Redis deserves to get paid, it's that they acted like they were being good stewards of the open-source community and then they changed their mind.

Step zero is definitely the OTP Design Principles doc (part of the OTP distribution):

https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/users_guide

There are some good texts that have more examples:

Erlang & OTP in Action - https://www.manning.com/books/erlang-and-otp-in-action

Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-for-scalabili...

One big example of distributed Erlang is Riak:

https://github.com/basho/riak