Redis made a license change (see Hashicorp before them) and as day follows night forks duly appeared. Although excitingly this time there are two alternatives to choose from Valkey, which seems to have more corporate support and Redict which is more independent and is being championed by the person behind Sourcehut who is more than a bit of a Marmite person.

It was also interesting to see that both projects opted for an “io” domain despite the ethical issues associated with it (a balanced summary if you’re unfamiliar). It is a shame that the “dev” domain hasn’t proved a bit more popular.