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DatabasesAI / MLEssays / personalEngineering blogs

’15’20’25
Posts
101 from 29 Mar 2011 to 28 Jul 2026
Posting
monthly (17 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 15

  1. The real AI risk is inside the labs
  2. Being Linux Torvalds
  3. Not just development, distribution of software may change as well
  4. Control the ideas, not the code
  5. A new era for software testing
  6. Distributing LLM inference in DwarfStar
  7. Alternatives for the EDIT tool of LLM agents
  8. A few words on DS4
  9. Redis array type: short story of a long development
  10. AI cybersecurity is not proof of work
  11. GNU and the AI reimplementations
  12. Redis patterns for coding
  13. Implementing a clear room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code
  14. Automatic programming
  15. Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

2025 13

  1. Reflections on AI at the end of 2025
  2. Scaling HNSWs
  3. AI is different
  4. Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)
  5. Human coders are still better than LLMs
  6. What I learned during the license switch
  7. Redis is open source again
  8. Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
  9. Vector Sets are part of Redis
  10. AI is useless, but it is our best bet for the future
  11. Big LLMs weights are a piece of history
  12. Reasoning models are just LLMs
  13. We are destroying software

2024 5

  1. From where I left
  2. Playing audio files in a Pi Pico without a DAC
  3. First Token Cutoff LLM sampling
  4. Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear
  5. LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024

2023 1

  1. The origins of the Idle Scan

2022 3

  1. In defense of linked lists
  2. Scrivendo Wohpe
  3. Writing Wohpe

2021 1

  1. Programming and Writing

2020 3

  1. The open source paradox
  2. The end of the Redis adventure
  3. Redis 6.0.0 GA is out!

2019 6

  1. Redis 6 RC1 is out today
  2. Client side caching in Redis 6
  3. The struggles of an open source maintainer
  4. Redis streams as a pure data structure
  5. Gopher: a present for Redis
  6. An update about Redis developments in 2019

2018 10

  1. Why RESP3 will be the only protocol supported by Redis 6
  2. Writing system software: code comments.
  3. LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command
  4. On Redis master-slave terminology
  5. Redis is not "open core"
  6. Redis will remain BSD licensed
  7. Redis Lua scripting: several security vulnerabilities fixed
  8. Clarifications on the Incapsula Redis security report
  9. A short tale of a read overflow
  10. An update on Redis Streams development

2017 5

  1. Redis PSYNC2 bug post mortem
  2. Streams: a new general purpose data structure in Redis.
  3. Doing the FizzleFade effect using a Feistel network
  4. The mythical 10x programmer
  5. Redis on the Raspberry Pi: adventures in unaligned lands

2016 11

  1. The first release candidate of Redis 4.0 is out
  2. Random notes on improving the Redis LRU algorithm
  3. Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
  4. Programmers are not different, they need simple UIs.
  5. Redis Loadable Modules System
  6. Three ideas about text messages
  7. Redis 3.2.0 is out!
  8. 100 more of those BITFIELDs
  9. The binary search of distributed programming
  10. Is Redlock safe?
  11. Disque 1.0 RC1 is out!

2015 15

  1. Generating unique IDs: an easy and reliable way
  2. 6 years of commit visualized
  3. Recent improvements to Redis Lua scripting
  4. A few things about Redis security
  5. Moving the Redis community on Reddit
  6. Clarifications about Redis and Memcached
  7. Lazy Redis is better Redis
  8. About Redis Sets memory efficiency
  9. Thanks Pivotal, Hello Redis Labs
  10. Commit messages are not titles
  11. Plans for Redis 3.2
  12. Adventures in message queues
  13. Redis Conference 2015
  14. Side projects
  15. Why we don’t have benchmarks comparing Redis with other DBs

2014 12

  1. Redis latency spikes and the Linux kernel: a few more details
  2. Redis latency spikes and the 99th percentile
  3. This is why I can’t have conversations using Twitter
  4. Diskless replication: a few design notes.
  5. A few arguments about Redis Sentinel properties and fail scenarios.
  6. Redis cluster, no longer vaporware.
  7. Queues and databases
  8. A proposal for more reliable locks using Redis
  9. Using Heartbleed as a starting point
  10. Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog
  11. Fascinating little programs
  12. What is performance?

2011 1

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