Redis 600 GA is out Finally Redis 6.0.0 stable is out. This time it was a relatively short cycle between the release of the first release candidate and the final release of a stable version. It took about four months, that is not a small amount of time, but is not a lot compared to
Critical issues in digital contract tracing I spent the last month becoming a connoisseur of digital contact tracing approaches since this seems like something where I might be able to help. Many other people have been thinking along similar lines (great), but I also see several misconceptions that even smart and deeply involved people are making.
Applications of Blockchain to Programming Language Theory Let’s talk about Blockchain. Goal is to use this forum topic to highlight its usefulness to programming language theory and practice. If you’re familiar with existing research efforts, please share them here. In addition, feel free to generate ideas for how Blockchain could improve languages and developer
What is the most effective policy response to the new coronavirus pandemic Disclaimer: I am not an epidemiologist, but there is an interesting potentially important pattern in the data that seems worth understanding. World healthcare authorities appear to be primarily shifting towards Social Distancing. However, there is potential to pursue a different strategy in the medium term that exploits a vulnerability of
Coronavirus and Machine Learning Conferences I’ve been following the renamed COVID-19 epidemic closely since potential exponentials deserve that kind of attention. The last few days have convinced me it’s a good idea to start making contingency plans for machine learning conferences like ICML. The plausible options happen to be structurally aligned with calls to enable
Updates for the new decade This blog has been quiet for the last year. I have quite a bit to write about but found myself often out of time between work at Microsoft, ICML duties, and family life. Nevertheless, I expect to get back to more substantive discussions as I adjust to the new load.
Redis 6 RC1 is out today So it happened again, a new Redis version reached the release candidate status, and in a few months it will hit the shelves of most supermarkets. I guess this is the most “enterprise” Redis version to date, and it’s funny since I took quite some time in order to understand
Client side caching in Redis 6 [Note: this post no longer describes the client side implementation in the final implementation of Redis 6, that changed significantly, see https://redis.io/topics/client-side-caching] The New York Redis day was over, I get up at the hotel at 5:30, still pretty in sync with the Italian time zone and immediately went walking on
The struggles of an open source maintainer Months ago the maintainer of an OSS project in the sphere of system software, with quite a big and active community, wrote me an email saying that he struggles to continue maintaining his project after so many years, because of how much psychologically taxing such effort is. He was looking
Redis streams as a pure data structure The new Redis data structure introduced in Redis 5 under the name of “Streams” generated quite some interest in the community. Soon or later I want to run a community survey, talking with users having production use cases, and blogging about it. Today I want to address another issue: I’m