The kinds of databases: • Fancy files • 1970s stays winning • This would be so cool if it worked at scale • Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
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The kinds of databases: • Fancy files • 1970s stays winning • This would be so cool if it worked at scale • Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
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Really hoping for a resurgence of filesystems. A life of being called to files. bsky.app/profile/jim-... With incremental snapshots it feels like we can sync these filesystems very very cheaply, reap some incredible fan out wins.
Hey, recently came to the same realization: choosing to store my data as JSON files on disk (rather than rows in a DB) has actually paid some good dividends. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-o...
The Spanner of my heart is ripgrep and some Dragonfly wildness or some such. Then many many many projected views. github.com/dragonflyoss...