Month November 2017

Ekanite 1.3.0 released

A new version of Ekanite, the syslog server with built-in search, has been released. v1.3.0 includes some bug fixes, including to shard management. It also moves Ekanite to Go 1.9. You can download v1.3.0 from the GitHub releases page.

The power of sorting

This is the second in a series about core data structures and algorithms. Considering how important sorting is to computer science and programming, it’s actually a mystery why more programmers don’t appreciate it.

rqlite 4.2.1 released

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v4.2.1 is now out. This release include some minor fixes to the CLI, as well as a simple benchmarking tool. You can download the release from…

Hash tables distilled

This is the first in a series about core data structures and algorithms. Many explanations of data structures focus on the implementation — and that is very important — but I’ve always found some context makes it so much easier…