Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Developing Go applications often involves managing numerous command-line options, which can quickly become tedious to handle and document. Enter flagforge, a tool designed to automate the entire process.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, and built on SQLite and Raft. With its origins dating back to 2014, its design has always prioritized reliability, and quality. The robustness of rqlite is also a testament…
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite has received several important updates in recent weeks. These updates, spanning versions 8.34.0 through 8.36.0, introduce new features and…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go, built on the Raft consensus algorithm, and uses SQLite as its storage engine. With release 8.32, rqlite now supports fast, reliable, Linearizable reads—delivering strong consistency guarantees without the…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Concurrency and synchronization are at the heart of any database — and distributed systems too. Today, I’d like to share the set…
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release 8.31.0 is out now and adds support for inserting BLOB data as Parameterized Values. This should make it even…
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release 8.30.0 is out now and adds support for Automatic Optimize.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.29.0 bakes more SQLite extensions into the Docker image, as well as improving extension management generally.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go. It is built on the Raft consensus protocol and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.27.0 introduces the capability to load SQLite extensions at startup, significantly expanding the…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go. It is built on the Raft consensus protocol and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Development of 9.0 has begun and aims to reduce disk usage by approximately 50%.…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Thanks to Uijlenhoet Software there is a new Delphi client available. Check it out on GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. It very recently reached a new milestone in the open-source community by surpassing 15,000 stars on GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.24.0 adds the ability to automatically upload point-in-time backups to AWS S3 and S3-compatible storage systems.
Did you know that SQLite contains a full text search engine? The SQLite FTS4 and FTS5 Extensions allow you to perform full-text searches on documents loaded into SQLite. And since rqlite uses SQLite as its database engine, rqlite makes it…
Mailpit, a multi-platform email testing tool, recently released support for rqlite. Mailpit is a popular application, with over 20 million Docker downloads. Many thanks to Ralph Slooten for adding the support. It’s great to see rqlite finding uses in an…
rqlite, the lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go and built on SQLite, has seen a series of significant updates enhancing its robustness, efficiency, and feature set. With releases from 8.20.0 to 8.22.2, rqlite continues to evolve, driven by…
rqlite is a lightweight, easy-to-use, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite has recently seen two significant upgrades with the release of versions 8.17.0 and 8.18.0. These releases introduce new features…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.16.0 comes with new support for backup and restore support for MinIO and other S3-compatible storage systems. Many thanks to Jason Tackaberry…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.15.0 fixes bugs related to auto-restore, improves backup performance, and adds some other minor enhancements.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. 8.14.0 improves Raft snapshotting control, as well as enables Automatic Clustering support for read-only nodes.
rqlite is a lightweight, easy-to-use, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release 8.0 is out now and brings substantial advancements to its handling of large data sets. It also adds many…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. I’ve added a listing of known client libraries to rqlite.io, hopefully developers will find them useful.
It was great to speak at GopherCon 2023, on the topic of building Distributed Systems using Go and Raft. You can download a copy of my presentation, along with speaker notes, here.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. It passed another milestone this month in the open-source world, by passing 14,000 stars on GitHub — and just in time for…
During the development of rqlite 8.0, a surprising behavior revealed itself through an unexpected venue: AppVeyor, the Continuous Integration (CI) system I employ for Windows testing. And even more unexpected was the resolution of previously unreliable unit tests.