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E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:39:42
Publish Date: 2025-05-19 20:38:35
Description:

Roman Gershman is Co-Founder & CTO of Dragonfly, the drop-in Redis replacement for heavy data workloads that has significant performance, cost, and scale benefits. Their open source dragonflydb has 28K stars on GitHub.

Dragonfly has raised $21M from investors including Quiet Capital and Redpoint.

In this episode, we dig into:

  • The challenges with Redis

  • The users that have really benefitted from Dragonfly (high scale + real-time needs - gaming, B2C)

  • The benefits of being multi-threaded

  • How they got some of their bigger users / customers like Twilio, SoFi, and Spotify
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