On a slightly related note, I first heard about Redis from Ezra -- probably ~2 years ago. I believe he deserves some similar type of credit for the early spread of Redis.
(His latest project cloudfoundry.com just launched today, so I think it's fairly relevant to give the guy some props right now :-)
(His latest project cloudfoundry.com just launched today, so I think it's fairly relevant to give the guy some props right now :-)