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asadawadiaon What's New in Kotlin 1.6.20

In the given example where is logger actually instantiated/mocked/setup?

asadawadiaon Ask HN: Why are there no easy-to-use highly-available open source databases?

What do you want specifically in a DB? Consistency? Sql or nosql? HA or sharded? homogeneous nodes?

Jbtw, the risk of nodes dying is quite exaggerated. DO/Vultr/Linode all provide 99.99% up time

asadawadiaon Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary structures

Great library - too bad it only allows reading

>Sometimes, I feel that we ought to have a simple protocol, on top of HTTP, to simply do remote procedure calls and throw out all this HTTP verbs crap. Every request is a http POST, with or without any body and the data transfer is in binary. So that objects can be passed back and forth between client and server.

https://github.com/asad-awadia/indie-rpc

asadawadiaon Using www-authenticate for user authentication

what a coincidence I just wrote about this last night on my blog - https://blog.aawadia.dev/2022/02/17/basic-auth-with-javalin/

asadawadiaon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

heh, this was next on my side projects list - i was going to do debate a stack - rails or node js type

asadawadiaon Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

https://blog.aawadia.dev/

asadawadiaon Ask HN: Can we just take a moment to appreciate how elegant C# is?

Kotlin to get a List<Pair<Int, String>>

val list = (1..20).map { Pair(it, "hey") }

asadawadiaon Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?

check out kotlin

asadawadiaon Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?

Lmk if you want virtual lessons - we can set something up. I have been playing for over 10 years and have taught many people before

asadawadiaon Code Smell: Primitive Obsession [video]

wdym user's world?

asadawadiaon IceFireDB: Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol

>Easy you push the configuration to every target. Then they are logically consistent.

What does this mean? This doesn't mean anything?

Are you saying to push the DB to the client?

asadawadiaon Go 1.17 Release Notes

>systems level programming or embedded development

Like building what?

asadawadiaon Go 1.17 Release Notes

Yeah but how often do we meet toaster devs?

asadawadiaon Go 1.17 Release Notes

That is not really a reason. What can I not build in Go that is easy to do in rust?

asadawadiaon Go 1.17 Release Notes

why though? some perf gains?

asadawadiaon Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

For the developers, there is a really nice go library with these formulae https://github.com/alpeb/go-finance

A guide is here: https://blog.aawadia.dev/2020/12/01/finance-concepts-go-fina...

asadawadiaon SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator Autopilot in Elixir

Is there a spec for this? How are there multiple open implementations?

asadawadiaon Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

I love Dbmate! Such a great library!

asadawadiaon Crazy fast build times, or when 10 seconds starts to make you nervous (2012)

have you looked into ktorm?

asadawadiaon VPS Showdown – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr

Thanks for doing these. I am always looking forward to the next one

Three requests:

1. Can you move Lightsail column to the end of the table?

2. Benchmark the premium servers from DO

3. Postgres bench along side/in place of mysql

asadawadiaon Live chat feeds with Vert.x and Kotlin in less than 20 lines of code

I wanted to build something like a live feed app where users could go to any `/<room-id>` and they would be instantly connected to all other users on that URL on a live chat.

I wasn't sure how to stop high volume chats from just flying by [queue with throttling?] and massive spam that happen on chat apps so decided not to put anything live.

I wanted to share the code regardless on how a websocket chat prototype can be setup with Vert.x and Kotlin in less than 20 lines.

Maybe this will inspire more devs to pick kotlin and vertx for their backends

asadawadiaon The Database Inside Your Codebase

I can barely read with that font colour..

asadawadiaon Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time

https://blog.aawadia.dev/2021/02/08/where-is-this-blog-hoste...

Lmk if you need any extra details

asadawadiaon How to teach technical concepts with cartoons

can you share an example image of storyline meeting notes?

asadawadiaon PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances

https://blog.aawadia.dev/2021/01/06/upgrading-pg-10-to-12/ wrote a bit about it

asadawadiaon Expanding Fuchsia's open source model