Guests discuss Redis' re-licensing leading to Redict fork, importance of community-built software, DuckDB vs jq, developer's success despite limitations, and insights on the web developer job market challenges.
Redis' re-licensing leads to community forks like Redict, questioning the future of community-built software.
Web developers face a bleak job market with predictions of industry turmoil, worsened by AI bubble burst concerns.
Deep dives
Redis Adopts Dual Source Licensing
Redis recently shifted to a new licensing model due to challenges arising from its commercial success and cloud service providers. This move sparked reactions within the open-source community, with Drude introducing Redict, an alternative non-commercial fork based on Redis OSS 7.2.4.2. Microsoft also announced a Redis client-compatible cash store named Garnet. The relicensing debate raises broader concerns about corporate control and the future of community-built software.
Impending Job Market Challenges for Web Developers
Web developers face a grim job market environment, with predictions of potential industry turmoil surpassing the dot com crash. Baldur Bjarnison highlights the impact of web media sector collapse on employment opportunities for developers, exacerbated by declining search engine traffic and the increasing presence of spam sites. The looming AI bubble burst adds to the foreboding outlook, suggesting a challenging road ahead for web developers in finding and securing stable job prospects.
Redis’ re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault’s Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more community built software, Paul Gross makes the case that DuckDB is the new jq, Anton Zhiyanov shares how he makes a living as a developer despite being “pretty dumb” & Baldur Bjarnason chimes in on the state of the web developer job market.
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