From where I left

406 · Salvatore Sanfilippo · Dec. 10, 2024, 5:02 p.m.
Summary
The author discusses their return to Redis after several years, motivated by a desire to reengage with the tech community and contribute to open source. They reflect on their past experiences with Redis, the fragmentation of its community, and the implications of a recent license change. The blog highlights their thoughts on software license dynamics, the new focus on embedding and vector indexing capabilities in Redis to accommodate modern AI developments, and expresses optimism about future contributions to the project. They provide insights on how AI has enhanced their work and reveal ongoing projects involving the development of new data structures for machine learning applications.