Finding and fixing leaks in our nodejs addon
nodejs is a great platform reaching a certain degree of maturity. We generally have a lazy approach toward API support with quasardb: if no one is asking for it, don’t implement it.
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Building a database
It is with great pleasure and pride we announce the fifth beta of our quasardb 2.0 release. Things are getting exciting as we are approaching the final release!
Automatically mounting instance stores on an AWS AMI
On Amazon’s EC2, using EBS as the backend storage for your application has been the de-facto standard. Using the local storage of an EC2 container is risky: data loss occurs when a container is stopped and it is not replicated by default. As such, people should default to using EBS, which is Amazon’s version of […]
5 awesome C++ libraries we use
This is an opinionated post about five libraries we use in the production code of quasardb.
SFINAE Hell: detecting template methods
One of the cool thing about C++ is all these checks you can do at compile time. With compile time checks you can not only write safer code, but also faster code for the simple reason that alls the checks you do at compile time will not have to be done at runtime.
Chaotic testing
The stabilization algorithm – quasardb is a distributed, peer-to-peer database based on the Chord Algorithm. It is actually much more than that, but for the purpose of this post we will focus on the Chord algorithm and one fundamental process: stabilization.