A conversation with Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of the open-source database Redis

In case you haven’t heard, Redis is one of the most widely used databases in the world. It’s also one of the most popular software projects on GitHub, right up there with tools from Facebook and Google.
Like other open-source software, Redis has many contributors. But there’s one person who started it: an Italian named Salvatore Sanfilippo. Last month, Sanfilippo was in San Francisco to speak at RedisConf, the conference for the database. He took some time out of his visit to s