Why I like Redis : Simon Willison plugs Redis as a good datastore for quick-hack scripts with requirements for lots of fast, local data storage — the kind of thing I’d often use a DB_File for
(tags: python storage databases schemaless nosql redis simon-willison data-store)Unicorn at GitHub : new Ruby HTTP server, using a preforked process pool based on select(). Github like it because of failure-recovery problems with Ruby threading bugs in Mongrel. The preforking algo used is extremely rudimentary — the kind of thing we used in SpamAssassin before I implemented Apache-style preforking in 3.0
(tags: web ruby rails github nginx httpd server mongrel unicorn rubyonrails preforking unix fork select process-pool)Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC : another serialization format, binary, no IDL, no code generation, from GitHub
(tags: github bert erlang ruby rpc protocol thrift serialization networking)