Tracking the trackers. The beginning.
This project wants to explore how the web is tracked by whom. As the most tech savvy readers know, when we visit a web page, several things happen in the…
Rust and glibc version.
Rust is an amazing language, with amazing community and tooling. However, sometimes, you can end up in complex situation where the standard tools are not sufficient anymore, in those case…
Write a Postgres proxy. Day 3. Return selected rows.
During the last session we worked on extracting the query string from the messages in the PG protocol. Then we focused on INSERT queries allowing to insert data into RediSQL…
Write a Postgres proxy. Day 2. Getting the queries.
In this series of post we are writing a postgres proxy that accept connections made using the postgres (PG) protocol and forward them to RediSQL. Motivation and introduction of the…
Write a Postgres proxy. Day 1.
In this series of post we are writing a postgres proxy that accept connections made using the postgres (PG) protocol and forward them to RediSQL. Motivation and introduction of the…
Write a Postgresql proxy. The Beginning.
This series of articles will follow my progress in creating a RediSQL proxy for Postgres, pg-redis-proxy. The end goal of this project is to have a proxy that will listen…
RediSQL release 1.0.0, change in strategy and business model.
RediSQL finally reached version 1.0.0. The release does not contains new code, however it is a major shift in our strategy. We maturate the idea that all the code should…
Telemetrics for RediSQL
RediSQL is the product that Redbeardlab is launching. We decide to adopt telemetrics in the product so that we know what functionality is used and where is worth to invest…
On dignity and self-respect of a profession
Yesterday I stumble upon this tweet: Which is part of a bigger movement that keeps selling the idea that anyone can easily become a programmer and/or software engineer. And please,…
Complexity as lubricant
Us developers are fighting complexity all day long. Without pouring energy into keeping a system entropy low, any system will tend to get more disorganized and complex. Low complexity is…