Redis adopts dual source-available licensing, but what does it mean?

First things first, the title is from the amazing joke Erik Bjäreholt did on X (ex-twitter). 

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Evolution of QA in thrownewexception.com company tale: from manual testing to better approach

Samuel was driving to work, still sleepy and not in a very good mood. It was a sunny morning, a beautiful sky, but not even that could reduce the anxiety he was feeling. The last release went wrong, some issue with the back office features was preventing the partners from publishing ads and affecting not only their sales but also their relationship with partners. He always understood the importance of quality in software and how it impacts customer attrition and brand reputation. 

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This is the tale of my imaginary company. Stay tuned!

While I was creating a blog post about how to speed up engineering teams to deliver more value to the end-user, a friend of mine shared an idea: linking that story to a different one I was planning to write and taking the opportunity to use the same fictional characters.

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From Gatekeepers to Enablers. The story of a fictional company’s SRE journey towards engineering autonomy, more productivity, better compliance and, happiness!

Linkedin described five stages of SRE , the second one being the gatekeeper.

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Imagine you are in a remote meeting using terms like SLI, SLO, or SLA, and your kid asks you what it means? How would you explain it to them? Or maybe you need to explain it to your boss or a colleague. In this article, I will try to put SLI, SLO, and SLA in a way even your kids would understand… maybe.

If you are reading this, you probably have been in a situation where you had to explain these terms to people that are not familiar with them. But if you haven’t, I can guarantee that you will. These terms are really simple but at the same time very easy to misunderstand.

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