balu

Born on February 10, 2010•32 Karma

on March 28, 2022

•on: A Year of BonsaiDb: A retrospective and looking to...

Will be interesting to see how the feature set works out. I initially thought about the project as a SQLite alternative, but it's intended to be used on servers (e.g. backend of author's MMORPG). Will they focus on that? If so, it could be part of their description.

Anyways, this is well-written and fun to read. Thanks for sharing your journey!

ecton•

on March 28, 2022

I definitely am still going to be tackling replication and clustering. There is a single-server mode already available, although with no replication or clustering that means no high availability yet.

As the main contributor, it's hard to say that I'm "focusing" on those aspects, however. Advanced server modes are on my mind constantly -- but so are ways to add more powerful queries, relationships, and more. It's a large project and one of my goals of this coming year is to try to attract more contributors.

Thank you for your comments!

balu•

on April 1, 2021

•on: Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-...

Not open source, but Ninox is really great once you get used to their UI paradigm that is a little bit different from what everybody else is doing. https://ninox.com/de

balu•

on Sept 29, 2013

•on: Freelan - an open-source, multi-platform, peer-to-...

Not an expert, but TeleHash [1] might be a more lightweight alternative than freelan for a lot of applications.

[1] https://github.com/quartzjer/TeleHash/blob/master/org/v2.md

kika•

on Sept 29, 2013

wow, I didn't follow this field for a while. Seems to be a great thing, but it's not an alternative, it's a higher layer. Telehash may provide naming, addressing, etc, while the stack I'm talking about basically provides UDP connectivity between parties.

balu•

on July 29, 2011

•on: Redis 2.4 will be released tomorrow

What's happening on the scripting front? Looked at the network graph at Github, but it does not seem to work currently. There is a branch for 2.2, but not for 2.4.

Scripting is definitely the feature I'm waiting for.

antirez•

on July 29, 2011

Hello Balu, what happened with scripting is that it was merged into the unstable branch! So now it is part of Redis. The first stable version featuring scripting will be 2.6.

balu•

on May 22, 2011

•on: London Is Gonna Be Pissed, But We Prefer Berlin fo...

Tacheles will be closed by end of july as far as I know. Last time I was in that area there were a hell lot of cops. The artists living in the building try to fight for their space, but I don't think they'll make it. It's a shame that a lot of these alternative spaces are closed down without thinking to make room for yet another useless shop.

balu•

on May 19, 2011

•on: WeekendHacker.net - A place for very small projec...

From the FAQ:

    Q: Is it just a mailing list?
    A: For now yes. But if people feel the need for something else to be added we will of course do that

balu•

on May 1, 2011

•on: Ordered atomic broadcast capabilities to Riak

This is awesome. I recently played around with riak and thought about using it in a project. What I really appreciate is the simple key-value interface that riak exposes while staying away from assumptions about your data.

It would be awesome if we now could implement strong guarantees like uniqueness using riak_zab in a distributed manner.

balu•

on Feb 17, 2011

•on: Amplify: a jQuery component library for solving co...

They do mention it. It's a little bit hidden, but see http://amplifyjs.com/community/#pull_requests

balu•

on Feb 17, 2011

•on: Amplify: a jQuery component library for solving co...

Wow, this is exactly the kind of interface I dislike. It's way too verbose and I'm not sure why one would add this kind of layer on top of jQuery. I don't see where it makes things easier - it's more like it just provides yet another interface.

balu•

on Dec 14, 2010

•on: Graphical Vim Cheatsheet

Hahah. A graphical cheatsheet for a command line editor. Nice!