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Josiah Carlson talks about Redis, Python, and other technology topics.

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48 from 26 Jun 2010 to 12 Oct 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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2026 1

  1. California should do universal healthcare

2025 1

  1. Sending email with AWS SES (Simple Email Service) and getting SPF failures?

2024 1

  1. CRC64 in Valkey got faster

2023 2

  1. CRC64 in Redis is getting even faster
  2. Getting an early birthday present from YouTube

2022 1

  1. Goodbye Twitter

2019 1

  1. Re: Leaky Python Batteries

2016 1

  1. rom Indexes and Search

2015 1

  1. Transactions in Redis

2014 7

  1. Introduction to rate limiting with Redis [Part 2]
  2. Introduction to rate limiting with Redis [Part 1]
  3. Why thorium reactors are important
  4. A message to (almost) everyone
  5. Soylent and me
  6. Heartbleed and false equivalence
  7. Simplifying Postgres permissions

2013 7

  1. Properties on Python modules
  2. Multi-column (SQL-like) sorting in Redis
  3. The spectacle of it all, and why you should just walk away
  4. What's going on with rom?
  5. Steganography in Python
  6. Want to get a deal on Redis in Action?
  7. I'm tired

2012 4

  1. Why "right to work" is bullshit
  2. Python bytecode hacks, gotos revisited
  3. Why we didn't use a bloom filter
  4. Creating a Lock with Redis

2011 11

  1. Netflix Splitting is a silly move
  2. Improving Performance by 1000x
  3. Building for Uptime, Expecting Failure talk now available
  4. Followup with Time Warner
  5. How to solve your cable/internet outage with a drill
  6. A Neat Python Hack? No, Broken Code
  7. Building Adly's Twitter Analytics
  8. Port Forwarding: Just use SSH
  9. Building an Ad Network Ready for Failure
  10. The Essentials Behind Building a Streaming API
  11. Some Redis Use-cases

2010 10

  1. Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited
  2. Being a student isn't easy, it requires actual work
  3. YogaTable as a Database Server
  4. YogaTable Part 2: An Embedded NoSQL Database
  5. Binary Space Partitions and You
  6. Introducing YogaTable, the flexible NoSQL database
  7. Building a New NoSQL Database from Scratch
  8. Databases on SSDs, Initial Ideas on Tuning
  9. Building a search engine using Redis and redis-py
  10. Beating Interpolation Search & Binary Search