E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store

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