E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store
Update: 2025-05-19
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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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