(6) Robey* Pointer, and I was the third guy in the room… We had already chosen the Yahoo! “Feeding Frenzy” design at that point, had started the design using Redis based on experience I gained at an previous company, and were working out the data structures using what was available in Redis, as I recall. We put together a few PRs against Redis shortly thereafter to make Redis a practical option for Haplocheirus in production.

There’s more to say of course, but we appreciated having these sorts of conversations with upstream authors of software we adopted at Twitter whenever possible.