upmostly10h ago

Do you even need a database?

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/do-you-even-need-a-database

Do You Even Need a Database? - DB Pro Blog

We built the same HTTP server in Go, Bun, and Rust using two storage strategies: read the file on every request, or load everything into memory. Then we ran real benchmarks. The results are more interesting than you'd expect.

Show threadz3ugma9h ago
At some point, don't you just end up making a low-quality, poorly-tested reinvention of SQLite by doing this and adding features?
Show threadwhalesalad

Reminds me of the infamous Robert Virding quote:

“Virding's First Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.”

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Show threadmrec5h ago

In case you weren't aware, that in itself is riffing on Greenspun's tenth rule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Greenspun's tenth rule - Wikipedia