# Stepping Back as Redis Maintainer

DevFeed: [Stepping Back as Redis Maintainer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-end-of-the-redis-adventure-20624.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://antirez.com/news/133>)

Published: 2020-06-30T13:00:16Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Antirez](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/antirez.md>)

Topics: [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on Redis's origins and explains that they are stepping back from their role as Redis maintainer. They will continue contributing ideas at Redis Labs and serving on its advisory board.

## Source excerpt

When I started the Redis project more than ten years ago I was in one of the most exciting moments of my career. My co-founder and I had successfully launched two of the major web 2.0 services of the Italian web. In order to make them scalable we had to invent many new concepts, that were already known in the field most of the times, but we didn't know, nor we cared to check. Problem? Let's figure out a solution. We wanted to solve problems but we wanted, even more, to have fun. This was the playful environment where Redis was born. But now Redis is, incredibly, one of the main parts of so many things. And year after year my work changed from building this thing to making sure that it was also as useful as possible, as reliable as possible. And in recent years, what I do every day changed so much that most of my attention is spent in checking what other developers tell me about the Redis code, how to improve it, the changes it requires to be more correct or faster or more secure. However I never wanted to be a software maintainer. I write code in order to express myself, and I consider what I code an artifact, rather than just something useful to get things done. I would say that what I write is useful just as a side effect, but my first goal is to make something that is, in some way, beautiful. In essence, I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer. Now I'm asked more and more, by the circumstances created by a project that became so important, to express myself less and to maintain the project more. And this is indeed exactly what Redis needs right now. But this is not what I want to do, and I stretched myself enough during the past years. So, dear Redis community, today I'm stepping back as the Redis maintainer. My new position will be, on one side, an "ideas" person at Redis Labs, in order to provide inputs for new Redis possibilities: I'll continue to be part of the Redis Labs advisory board. On the other hand however my hands will be f