shortridge, 6 months ago to random

hello fedimortals, what are the most beautiful computer things to you — whether in the realm of #software, #hardware, #networks, #distsys, etc.?

what pleases your aesthetic senses? what feels poetic? what fills you with awe, wonder, or excitement?

serious answers preferred 🖤

janl, 10 months ago to random

I got nerdsniped by @tef & @sushee to demonstrate how relatively easy it is to build a CRAQ (https://timilearning.com/posts/mit-6.824/lecture-9-craq/) system atop @couchdb — Showing that as much as CouchDB is a distributed database in itself, it is also a very nice toolkit to build other kinds of distributed databases with it :)

The demo is in Node.js with some private JS/HTTP API glue that is not relevant to the demo: https://gist.github.com/janl/d0ba3544631e054e59fbd5f4d3ee96f8

Let me know if you ahave any questions.

#CouchDB #DistSys #Databases #NoSQL #CRAQ