Redis and the Cost of Ambition

I do agree with the feeling that Redis started to add more and more features as time went on. A lot of that is because the time and cost to stand up a dedicated service (like Kafka, RabbitMq, etc etc) was higher than just putting more data into Redis.

While I agree with the theme that Redis has become more and more complicated and had more features added to it, as part of a monetization push by Redis Inc, it's understandable.

Especially since there are plenty of other posts on HN titled "Just use Postgres" for everything. So, why does Postgres get a pass on being a message queue, distributed lock manager, JSON document store, and vector database, while Redis is not allowed to?

There was really good discussion of this article on lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition