It's very refreshing to see here that "attack" is not used in the way that one might expect from just the headline, meaning "a possibly unwarranted criticism that I didn't like or found unfair, or that I am taking personally".
I am endlessly impressed with how antirez responds to any critique of Redis that I've ever seen. He's always taken it as a positive, and looked for the truth in the critique, rather than searching for something to be wrong and try to discredit the critique.
My opinion of him and the Redis project increases further every time.
Really? I hadn't seen the original posts before clicking on the this one and I assumed this was some kind of security breach...I hadn't heard of Aphyr before but just assumed it was some kind of netsec (white or black hat) group. I actually skimmed the OP's first paragraphs several times because I didn't understand what was going on.
That said, I agree that DB reliability should be taken with the same rigor as net security...but I was kind of under the impression that it already was, in that DBs are pretty serious business. Also, "attack" has the connotation of, well, an "attack"...here, some of the failures happen in regular business operations, which is a problem different from when the system is under "attack".
But at least the OP took the criticism graciously. When I read what the case actually was, I then worried that the OP was having a bunker mentality.
