Congrats, antirez. I know some of us were scared that VMware's acquisition of you would be a bad thing, but you've clearly been doing just fine. Thanks for everything!

Thank you guys, we have a wonderful community :)

VMware was really supportive since the start, it's really an impressive experience, they behave as part of the Redis community, it's amazing as when I talk with VMware they just care about stability, documenting Redis well, making users happy.

Another reason why I'm happy about how things are going for Redis is that it is like an utility. Everybody is starting to use it because it does a simple thing, is simple to build and to use. It's not perfect but it is very accessible. I think this is how software should be in the first place, then we'll have more time to improve, but I hope Redis will never lost his "take it simple" soul.

Thanks!

Not sure whether you are going to be able to answer this, but I have been interested in how much use Redis has seen internally at VMware.

I don't have reliable data at hand, but what I can say is that VMware is starting to use Redis and will do more in the future :)

Seconded. Antirez, I know you hang out here sometimes, so consider this a huge thank you for building what has become a core part of my business' infrastructure.

What was http://readr.com ? That's a good domain name. Do you have plans for it?

Readr was a social aggregator, like Friendfeed but without the Facebook acquisition. I just sold that name a few weeks ago - we'll see what the new owner has in store for it.

Don't reply if you don't want to say, but how much did you sell it for? I wish I would have known, could have used it!

This is so exciting. Redis is an exquisite scalpel of scalability for those of us optimizing legacy apps with hundreds of relational tables.

MULTI/EXEC (transactions!) Pub/Sub, virtual memory! wooo!

(if you've been running on one of the betas, the change is that WATCH was taken out.)