<story><title>The End of the Redis Adventure</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/133</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>@antirez - Thank you for Redis! It&amp;#x27;s been a joy to use across so many projects.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However I never wanted to be a software maintainer.&lt;p&gt;And nothing say that you have to be. There&amp;#x27;s this perverted view that anytime someone creates a popular FOSS project, they need to dedicate every waking minute to maintaining it. That&amp;#x27;s neither economically feasible nor psychologically reasonable.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Redis was the most stressful thing I did in my career, and probably also the most important. I don’t like much what the underground programming world became in recent years, but even if it was not an easy journey, I had the privilege to work and interact with many great individuals.&lt;p&gt;What is &amp;quot;underground programming world&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&amp;gt; What is &amp;quot;underground programming world&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;The programming world that nobody else sees.&lt;p&gt;Everybody uses shiny FOSS tools, and some even make big $ using them, but nobody wonders where they come from and how much pain went into building them.</text></comment>
<story><title>The End of the Redis Adventure</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/133</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>@antirez - Thank you for Redis! It&amp;#x27;s been a joy to use across so many projects.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However I never wanted to be a software maintainer.&lt;p&gt;And nothing say that you have to be. There&amp;#x27;s this perverted view that anytime someone creates a popular FOSS project, they need to dedicate every waking minute to maintaining it. That&amp;#x27;s neither economically feasible nor psychologically reasonable.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Redis was the most stressful thing I did in my career, and probably also the most important. I don’t like much what the underground programming world became in recent years, but even if it was not an easy journey, I had the privilege to work and interact with many great individuals.&lt;p&gt;What is &amp;quot;underground programming world&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cies</author><text>I was also intrigued by that sentence. I expect it means (open source) programming that happens outside of of big corps.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;m unsure.</text></comment>