maxmcd

Those care about quickly sending compact messages over the network, but most of them do not create a sparse in-memory representation that you can read on the fly. Especially in javascript.

This lib keeps the compact representation at runtime and lets you read it without putting all the entities on the heap.

Cool!

They're implementing MVCC

does having to maintain the slatedb as a consistent singleton (even with write fencing) make this as operationally tricky as a third party db?

Is this possibly an intentional reference to GNU Linux, or unrelated?

TCP performance gets quite poor over long distances. CDNs are very helpful if you're trying to make your site work well far away from your servers.

I think a lot of the original temporal/cadence authors were motivated by working on event-driven systems with retries. They exhibited complex failure scenarios that they could not reasonably account for without slapping on more supervisor systems. Durable executions allow you to have a consistent viewpoint to think about failures.

I agree determinism/idempotency and the complexities of these systems are a tough pill to swallow. Certainly need to be suited to the task.

I believe you are making use of gVisor’s userspace TCP implementation. I’m not sure if there is something similar in Rust that would be so easy to set up like this.

"Reply in the tone of Wikipedia" has worked pretty well for me