Rust

UselessDB

I have built a completely useless database.

I had a couple flights across the country this week so I decided to test some ideas in Rust. If you’re not yet familiar with Rust, it’s a systems language focusing on performance, safety, and concurrency. I’ve really enjoyed using it so far and every day it feels much more natural. I’ve been thinking about database internals a lot recently, and decided to see what it would be like to implement a typed database in Rust using byte buffers. The simplest case is a DB which holds a single variable… so there you have it.

Introducing KillrAnswers

The last few months have been a non stop whirlwind of traveling and speaking. I’ve been very fortunate to have spoken at Strata New York, give a couple sessions at the Cassandra Summit, and even had a few minutes on stage for the Cassandra Summit keynote (I’m at minute 22 with Luke Tillman). When I have time, I end up hacking on random projects. For example, a couple months ago I was working on a recommendation engine for KillrVideo. I also end up playing with bleeding edge builds of Cassandra and Spark.