Redis on the Raspberry Pi adventures in unaligned lands After 10 million of units sold, and practically an endless set of different applications and auxiliary devices, like sensors and displays, I think it’s deserved to say that the Raspberry Pi is not just a success, it also became one of the preferred platforms for programmers to experiment in the
The first release candidate of Redis 40 is out It’s not yet stable but it’s soon to become, and comes with a long list of things that will make Redis more useful for we users: finally Redis 4.0 Release Candidate 1 is here, and is bold enough to call itself 4.0 instead of 3.4. For me semantic versioning is
Scaling With Agility
Random notes on improving the Redis LRU algorithm Redis is often used for caching, in a setup where a fixed maximum memory to use is specified. When new data arrives, we need to make space by removing old data. The efficiency of Redis as a cache is related to how good decisions it makes about what data to
Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code just for fun WARNING: Long pretty useless blog post. TLDR is that I wrote, just for fun, a text editor in less than 1000 lines of code that does not depend on ncurses and has support for syntax highlight and search feature. The code is here: http://github.com/antirez/kilo. Screencast here: https://asciinema.org/a/90r2i9bq8po03nazhqtsifksb For the sentimentalists, keep reading… A
Is Agile Killing the Architect Has the rise of agile delvery killed off the role of the sofware architect in businesses, or is it still as relevent as it ever was?
Programmers are not different they need simple UIs I’m spending days trying to get a couple of APIs right. New APIs about modules, and a new Redis data type. I really mean it when I say days, just for the API. Writing drafts, starting the implementation shaping data structures and calls, and then restarting from scratch to iterate again
Redis Loadable Modules System It was a matter of time but it eventually happened. In the Redis 1.0 release notes, 7 years ago, I mentioned that one of the interesting features for the future was “loadable modules”. I was really interested in such a feature back then, but over the years I became more
Three ideas about text messages I’m aboard of a flight bringing me to San Francisco. Eventually I purchased the slowest internet connection of my life (well at least for a good reason), but for several hours I was without internet, as usually when I fly. I don’t mind staying disconnected for some time usually. It’s a
Redis 320 is out It took more than expected, but finally we have it, Redis 3.2.0 stable is out with changes that may be useful to a big number of Redis users. At this point I covered the changes multiple time, but the big ones are: * The GEO API. Index whatever you want by