Paolo Redaelli personal blog

UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc. as well a standard Key/Value store similar to BerkeleyDB, LevelDB, etc. A cousin of the much more famous SQLite

Bug chasing

Some months ago I’ve set up a Debian 9 virtual machine on the VMWare server of the SME I work for. I planned to enable several services on it: an IMAP server to locally store the email archive of the administration office a shared calendar and address-book with the startd protocols CalDAV and CardDAV; while…

Programmers fonts

Fira code is not the only programmers font. Its web page also lists: Hasklig Monoid Fixedsys Excelsior Iosevka DejaVu Sans Code they are all free-as-in-freedom. Personally I prefer Fira

Monoid

Monoid Monoid is a customizable, minimal + legible font optimized for coding. It’s customisable with ligatures, alternates and class based positioning.  

On Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat

Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source – Andreessen Horowitz is a perfectly-sound article from a pure “profit-only” point of view. What the author misses is that Amazon infrastructure is overwhelmingly built on Free Software, that even companies like Microsoft and Oracle put lots of development efforts into Free…