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Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by tidwall » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 7:00 PM UTC

lormayna wrote: post #10

Is the name related to Tadej Pogacar?

No

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by sureglymop » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 7:10 PM UTC

tidwall wrote: post #5

nodesocket wrote: post #2

Very interesting. Like the idea of using http, redis, or even PostgreSQL clients. Is there a way to provide the auth password via an envar instead of a command line arg? pogocache --auth mypass

That's the only way right now. The other ways I'm considering is with an environment variable and/or acl.

May I suggest the ability to specific a path to a file that it is then read from.

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by philipajohnston » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 7:17 PM UTC

lormayna wrote: post #10

Is the name related to Tadej Pogacar?

+1

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by simonw » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 7:26 PM UTC

Supporting HTTP, Redis and PostgreSQL protocols at the same time is a neat trick!

  psql -h localhost -p 9401
  => SET mykey 'my value';
  => GET mykey;
  => DEL mykey;

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by simonw » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 7:27 PM UTC

I thought I recognized the tidwall name - Josh is also responsible for tg which is a really neat, very tight C geospatial library: https://github.com/tidwall/tg

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by cedricium » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 7:33 PM UTC

lormayna wrote: post #10

Is the name related to Tadej Pogacar?

Hah I had the same question! Thought the project was aptly named if referring to the cycling champ if that’s what it was meant to be.

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by stevelacy » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 8:27 PM UTC

Congrats on launching! Was following along with the development, glad to see it launched

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by tidwall » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 8:39 PM UTC

stevelacy wrote: post #17

Congrats on launching! Was following along with the development, glad to see it launched

Thanks Steve. Your feedback was very helpful.

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by 1337shadow » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 10:47 PM UTC

tidwall wrote: post #8

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #6

Really looks fascinating.. Might need a deeper dive. Also.. like, it says that you plan on supporting sql? is this true? What does that actually mean really since I guess it might then compete with things like sqlite/duckdb? Genuinely curious, great project! Starred!

Not intending to make pogocache into a sql database. I prefer keeping it a cache. More so exploring ways to work with existing databases such as sqlite, duckdb, postgres. Kinda like providing proxy-ish operations that transparently cache sql reads.

Reminds me of this dope lib https://pythonhosted.org/johnny-cache/

Re: Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

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Post by tidwall » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 10:55 PM UTC

1337shadow wrote: post #19

tidwall wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not intending to make pogocache into a sql database. I prefer keeping it a cache. More so exploring ways to work with existing databases such as sqlite, duckdb, postgres. Kinda like providing proxy-ish operations that transparently cache sql reads.

Reminds me of this dope lib https://pythonhosted.org/johnny-cache/

Oh wow. That is dope. Thanks for sharing.