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It looks like videos will be published "shortly", I wasn't there but I'd imagine there was some cross over with this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/a/redis-db/PxFeA0fH...

The guy is pretty passive aggressive in that thread which makes it hard to take his points seriously.

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I actually agree with some of his points on this thread. Getting contributions accepted to redis is notoriously hard, and a few features I've suggested over the years had been rejected.

However, I have the utmost respect to antirez for doing the work that he does, and I think he is an excellent maintainer; his job is not to keep contributors happy but to make redis as good as it can be according to his vision. And while I disagree with some of his decisions, he's doing a great work at that, and I see him becoming more attentive to the community lately.

One thing I took from mythical man month was that having an architect with a clear vision is necessary for success. The architect isn't perfect. He will make mistakes and he will reject good ideas from time to time. But design by committee has the risk of doing development without a clear vision.

And herein lies a key part of the Node/io.js issue.

heh, he actually mentioned me in his post on the thread... I didn't notice it, I'm kinda out of the loop of the community lately.

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