My OCaml exploration continues (the Real World Ocaml book is great!).

This week I added a replication layer to my key-value store. I think I'm starting to get the hang of it...

I also wrote a blog post about how I did it:

jagg.github.io/posts/replic...

I wrote a short post with my notes about Eio, the OCaml 5 async IO library. Still many more things to try, but one step at a time!

jagg.github.io/posts/eio/

This weekend I continued my OCaml experiments from last week. I added a Write Ahead Log to my toy Key Value store!

I wrote about it here:
jagg.github.io/posts/wal/

Really enjoying OCaml so far!

During the last couple of weeks I've been playing with OCaml. I went back to my super basic key value store, and re-implemented it in OCaml.

I also wrote a bit about it here!

jagg.github.io/posts/trying...

Chapters 1–7 of the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications are now available in early release (sorry, O'Reilly subscribers only at this point). Among other changes, you may notice that we now talk about “sharding” rather than “partitioning” www.oreilly.com/library/view...

I spent some time this afternoon learning how to call Zig from Common Lisp! I figured it may come in handy for my Redis clone at some point.

I got it working, but I found some weirdness, may be due to memory alignment, that I can’t explain yet.

jagg.github.io/posts/lisp_z...

I just started a new experiment, implementing a basic Redis clone in Common Lisp.

This is what I have so far:

jagg.github.io/posts/cledis/

Three questions about Apple, Encryption, and the U.K. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/23/t...

I just tried Lem, the Common Lisp editor. It looks really promising! Is anybody using it as a main editor already?

I was missing writing software from scratch, so I’ve decided to save some time every week to reinvent some wheels, and force myself to blog about it!

To make it more interesting, I decided to use #common-lisp!

This is it so far:
jagg.github.io