Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis

A year ago, Redis Inc (formerly Garantia Data) made a controversial move that disrupted the open source ecosystem: it closed the source of Redis. As I wrote at the time, it was a trust-breaking decision that could have shattered the community. But instead of splintering, the community responded with purpose. Out of that disruption came Valkey, a fork that took a shot at keeping the community alive. A Return, A Reversal As part of efforts to rebuild trust with the community, Redis Inc brought back Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the original creator of Redis. I am genuinely excited about his return because it is already impactful. He’s following through on his promise of contributing new features and performance optimizations to Redis. More profoundly, Redis 8.0 has been open-sourced again. Redis acknowledged that adopting SSPL strained their bond with the community, questioning contributions from others in the same breath. How do you keep innovating and investing in OSS projec ... Read full article.