TL;DR Note: here is Part 1 and Part 2 CandyStore has reached v1.0 – the O(1) key-value store now has true crash consistency, a stable file format, and an overall simpler design. If you haven’t read the previous posts, CandyStore is a pure-R…
We (Sweet Security) published a post on Reddit to tell the Rust community about CandyStore, our fast key-value store, and I feel there were some recurring themes that I did not address on the first post. I tried answering specific comments,…
Sweet Security has just released CandyStore - a very fast Key-Value Store in Rust with negligible memory overhead and unique features like lists and queues. The library is meant to be used an embedded database, but in the future we may rele…
So it turns out my last post, D for the Win got all over the place. I published it late at night, went to bed, and when I got back in the morning all hell broke loose. And even more surprisingly, the vast majority of the reactions (at the o…
I’m a convert! I’ve seen the light! By the way, be sure to read part 2 as well. You see, Python is nice and all and it excels in so many domains, but it was not crafted for the ever growing demands of the industry. Sure, you can build large…
As you may already know, I’m a type-system junkie. My heart yearns for the strongly-typed languages of the world, but being a I’m a practical guy, I mostly work with Python. That said, I’ve been keeping myself busy trying to find a way writ…
Spending most of our time (as developers) in the high-level world, it’s easy to occasionally forget the true nature of our systems and how fragile they really are. Well, perhaps fragile is not the right word here, more like intricate or per…
Just a short rant: I’m working on an interactive console used for debugging a computer cluster. It connects to all nodes in the cluster and provides you with a single place to run queries. It uses the new (not yet officially-released) zero-…
I thought it’d be useful to publish some of the seminars/technical papers that I worked on when studying at Tel Aviv University, instead of letting them rot in a drawer. Hope you find it useful/interesting. A technical report on Gennaro Chi…
I have to admit that my day-to-day life involves very little algorithmic problems, but here and there I get a chance to think. In this post, I’d like to discuss an interesting problem that I’ve met several times already in my programming ca…
Travolta NXT, the dancing robot, reads color-coded dance instructions from a strip of paper and then performs the dance, in front of the astonished audience. The code for the project can be found at https://github.com/tomerfiliba/nxt-dancer…
Okay, I’ve been slacking off and I feel I’ve got some explaining to do… Allow me to start by admitting that I lied. If you remember, I said I wanted an easy life, but then the opportunity came and I knew I had to take it: I’ve joined two fr…