My father was on his deathbed at the age of 86. Two days before he passed, my younger brother and I started to fuss about Dad's condition in the ICU. I saw my father move his head. I looked him deep in the eyes, and he said to my brother and me without missing a beat, 'Cut it out.' I had to laugh, but in my laughter I started to cry.
Redis Enterprise 7.2 comes to its official end of life in February 2026, so what should users do in this situation and what lessons can they take away for the end-of-life management experiences that they will inevitably experience with other platform and tools? Redis is good, but when a version update drives users into an alleyway, what should they do? As an open source, in-memory data store known for its ability to act as a distributed cache, message broker and database, Redis is lauded for its high-performance, low-latency read/write speeds achieved through memory data storage. Come February next year, Redis software application developers, data science professionals and other connected operations staff will need to have been doing some prudent planning.
The definition of flourishing we have used at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard is "the relative attainment of a state in which all aspects of a person's life are good, including the contexts in which that person lives." Understood thus, flourishing is an ideal. It is not something we ever attain perfectly in this life. Flourishing is also multi-dimensional. We may be flourishing in certain ways, but not in others.
"The number of systems affected by infostealers closely mirrors the overall operational system market share - Windows 10 has been heavily targeted for years due to its popularity."