Something just doesn’t feel right about node.js.
After coding in it for almost a year, it’s been fun, but I’ve decided it’s just a waypoint to somewhere better.
Tag Archives: go
Replicating SQLite using Raft Consensus
SQLite is a “self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine”. However, it doesn’t come with replication built in, so if you want to store mission-critical data in it, you better back it up. The usual approach is to continually copy the SQLite file on every change.
I wanted SQLite, I wanted it distributed, and I really wanted a more elegant solution for replication. So rqlite was born.
Wow, the Go Memory Model really threw me
So far coding in Go has been fun. It comes with nice functionality that lets you know that the Go team really have been writing system software (useful stuff like this, and this). And then I read about the Go Memory Model, and had my consciousness raised.
Writing a Syslog Collector in Go
I’ve started coding in Go (golang), and I received some advice recently from Robert Griesemer, whom I was fortunate enough to sit beside at a recent Go Meetup. To learn Go, Robert suggested that I code a solution in Go for a problem I had previously solved in a different language.