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Antirez returns to Redis! (Interview)
Mar 7, 2025 · 1 hr 33 min · 135.5 MB
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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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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:14Sponsor: Augment Code
- 4:23Start the show
- 6:02We're still talking Redis
- 23:18Employed full-time to work on Redis
- 26:27Happy or sad with Redis?
- 29:36Redis has endured license changes
- 40:21Sponsor: Retool
- 43:22Back to AGPL??
- 48:46Who is Redis "the company"?
- 55:21AI next? Vector embeddings!
- 59:07Antirez schools us on how the frontier models work
- 1:05:23Don't waste your precious tokens!
- 1:07:13What does AI unlock for Redis users?
- 1:09:30Sponsor: Temporal
- 1:11:51Generating math/word quotes with AI
- 1:18:42Antirez is a Claude Sonnet fan
- 1:21:59How Adam used Claude recently
- 1:25:09Antirez's thoughts on AI's impact on our future
- 1:27:24Wrapping up
- 1:28:15Closing thoughts and stuff
- 1:31:52++ Teaser