RIrichieartoul·May 28, 2022Submission
Time Series and FoundationDB (2019)
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tsdb-layer
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tsdb-layer
Time Series and FoundationDB. Millions of writes/s and 10x compression in under 2,000 lines of Go.
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Nand2tetris is pretty awesome if you don’t already have strong CS fundamentals and feel like you “know how computers work”. If you had a good C.S education though you may not get much out of it.
Here is a cool one I worked on awhile ago when I wanted to learn more about foundationDB: https://github.com/richardartoul/tsdb-layer
A long time ago I wanted to learn about regular expression engines so I wrote a tiny one: https://github.com/richardartoul/regex-engine
I built this with some friends a few years ago: https://hyperdash.io/ (building the backend for this was a good learning experience and I learned a lot about writing multi threaded software making the python SDK).
Those are just some examples to give you an idea, but to be honest it’s hard to give a good answer because side projects are deeply personal.
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s discipline and motivation to spend your nights and weekends writing code when that’s how you spend your working hours as well, so it’s really gonna be about what motivates you and will keep you engaged while also gaining “high leverage” skills (anything fundamental in the realm of networking, compilers, databases, data structures, etc. basically anything that’s not just another language or framework)
On a related note, one of their engineers wrote a POC that uses FoundationDB instead of their custom storage engine.
https://github.com/richardartoul/tsdb-layer
The README does a really good job explaining the internals and motivation.
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