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

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E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store is an episode from The OSS Startup Podcast by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC).

This episode is 00:39:42 long.

This episode was published on May 19, 2025.

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