Random Computer Science Posts
It’s been almost 2 months since I lasted posted here, and the reason is simple: asynchronous networking in Rust is HARD! There have been a few blog posts and HN comments about Tokio and how it is tough to get … Read More »
I’m taking a quick detour from LogStore to talk about a great comment that came from a HN post: 100 days with Rust, or, a series of brick walls. The comment is from kibwen, and I’m basically going to copy-and-paste … Read More »
The lesson learned this time… there’s probably a library for that! This isn’t terribly surprising, and I’m kinda surprised I had to learn it again. One of my fellow grad students once called Java a scavenger hunt for a class … Read More »
Well that didn’t take long… I switched everything over to Message Pack from Message Pack for the indices, and JSON for the actual logs as described in the last post. It was just too easy to use the from_slice and … Read More »
I think I finally have the on-disk format/files working; though I’m sure I’ll change them! It’s currently using 2 different serializers (though both through the amazing serde package): JSON and MessagePack. The log file writes the JSON logs directly to … Read More »
Rust Doesn’t Have Inheritance, Or Does It? Coming from Java/C++/Python, I’m used to using inheritance when I want to take a piece of functionality and extend it. Rust doesn’t have inheritance, so I was thrown initially on how I’d go … Read More »
I’ve decided to embark on trying to build a log storage database in Rust. Why a log database? Because Elasticsearch isn’t really up for the task. There is a lot of stuff in Elasticsearch that just doesn’t need to be there … Read More »
One of the things I always wanted to accomplish with Metrink was dynamic alerts. A static threshold is usually useless for most metrics, because most metrics are cyclic [1]: To deal with cyclic metrics, you need a threshold or alert … Read More »
I was listening to a radio show this morning and they had Brendan Witt on talking about an app he made called Angle Mail. While the app itself is not terribly important to this discussion — though it’s for charity, … Read More »
I’d always wanted to get started with Software Defined Radio (SDR), and I found this blog post which claimed you could get a USB receiver for only $20: http://sierrapermaculture.com/?p=357 I ordered one, and below are the steps I took to … Read More »