What's next: From Go to production
Three follow-ups, ranked by how much each extends what you learned.
Path 1: Port your event-loop and shutdown step to Rust with tokio. Same architecture. Rust gives you closer-to-C performance plus type safety. The Rust sibling course in this series walks through that.
Path 2: Extend the Go version. Add pattern subscribe (PSUBSCRIBE) with path.Match. Add a real client output buffer limit. Add AOF rewrite using BGREWRITEAOF. Each is a one-evening project.
Path 3: Read real Redis source (C) and tidwall/redcon (a Go Redis library). You can navigate them now because you have the shape. Look for the dispatch table, the event loop, the protocol parser.