Ottobre, 2012

On twitter I read a few concerns about inability to read what I think about tech non-redis topics. First of all, thanks to everybody interested in my thoughts :) Second, this blog is exactly the place where I’ll post everything like that.

So:

@redisf…

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Good article by Josiah Carlson on Redis memory usage estimation, including copy-on-write worst case during BGSAVE:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/redis-db/02oq_DNZA3s/l_uEwDT3d4sJ
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of the final recording of the videos I’ll send to the Redis Conf. That was hard! The timing of the conf was not excellent for my attending, but producing the video was also less trivial than I thought, but finally I’ve the slides, an idea about what to…

Takeaways:

1) Making videos is in some way harder than doing a talk live.
2) Screen Flow is awesome, but could be improved with more video editing capabilities, apparently you can’t “cut” the video.
3) The problem is to upload files when they are big …

You are there in the morning with your coffee in front of you, scanning pull requests and bug reports, then you see a conversation around a commit among a few guys that modified the code to make it better, than there is another one suggesting to improv…

And there is Pieter Noordhuis on stage right now!

http://redisconf.com/video/
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Redis 2.6 is finally out and I think that now that we reached this point we’ll start to see how the advantages of a release that was already exploited in production by few, will turn into a big advantage for the rest of the community.

Scripting, bitop…

I don’t like people that are using recent EC2 problems to get an easy advantage / marketing. Stuff go down and cloud services are not magical, it is better to adjust the expectations.

But there are other reasons why people IMHO should consider going b…

h2s writes about Linus:

“I love this guy’s balanced approach to steering the kernel. Somebody asked whether a bunch of security-related patches would be getting into Linus’ tree, and his response was great.
Basically, he spent a few minutes explaining…

It’s a more quite time now. Redis 2.6 released, the sexism issue almost forgotten. Time to relax, be wise, and focus on work. Right, but, that’s not me. I’ve a few more things to say about what happened, and to reply to the many people that asked me wh…