COcontingencies·Dec 13, 2020Submission
1 points · Open discussionttezel
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Rsync implementation in node.js
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Rsync implementation in node.js
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sources(Confession: the title was sqlite in js [673,971 bytes gzipped; via emscripten] but nobody cared, so I made it more linkbaity.)
So we've got sqlite in JS now. It's a little heavy, but that's amazing for some applications. Meanwhile, there's the W3C's IndexedDB under proposal:
http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/IndexedDB
... optionally with https://github.com/axemclion/IndexedDBShim for greater browser reach.
(I really do wonder how the W3C justified IndexedDB given SQLite's excellent codebase and small size? I guess they mainly wanted event hooks because I can't see any other impressive features.)
So, how long until we see an implementation of `rsync` for some of these things? Why bother with developing complex manual-integration APIs if you can just perform a gzipped batch-sync of your client-exposed
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DB portion right down to the client app, and offload all that server processing and round-trip overhead, SQL injection risk, etc.?
Potentially fun project for someone else: learn IndexedDB + LLVM + asm.js + emscripten + rsync batch mode source + generalized javascript serialization + sync the crap out of some DB's over slow links + benchmark performance/reliability/integration implementation speed changes vs. current era REST APIs.
(Alternatively, https://github.com/ttezel/anchor appears to be an rsync implementation in node.js)
Perhaps for mobile applications and other rich client scenarios (browser games, data-heavy financial or monitoring frontends, etc.) REST is now on the way out.
Rsync implementation in node.js
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