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Re: Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

#43

Post by alexpadula »

latchkey wrote: post #42

"When it starts to fail, please don't curse us."

I’d say it leaves you cursed with joy but I may be biased as I created it. I really like the name Cursus and I found it one day just translating English to Latin, just randomly and really liked the meaning of it and it’s super easy to remember so I kept it in my back pocket until I had something to use it for and when designing CursusDB it sprung up whilst drawing out the initial algorithms.

Re: Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

#44

Post by latchkey »

alexpadula wrote: post #43
latchkey wrote: post #42

"When it starts to fail, please don't curse us."

I’d say it leaves you cursed with joy but I may be biased as I created it. I really like the name Cursus and I found it one day just translating English to Latin, just randomly and really liked the meaning of it and it’s super easy to remember so I kept it in my back pocket until I had something to use it for and when designing CursusDB it sprung up whilst drawing out the initial algorithms.

It is a good name. I'm just working on taglines for you. ;-)

Re: Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

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Post by alexpadula »

latchkey wrote: post #44
alexpadula wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d say it leaves you cursed with joy but I may be biased as I created it. I really like the name Cursus and I found it one day just translating English to Latin, just randomly and really liked the meaning of it and it’s super easy to remember so I kept it in my back pocket until I had something to use it for and when designing CursusDB it sprung up whilst drawing out the initial algorithms.

It is a good name. I'm just working on taglines for you. ;-)

Oh haha! I didn’t even catch on! Thank you

Re: Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

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Post by latchkey »

Interesting product. I'm reading through the source and... Woah... it is all in one single file with zero unit tests.

Of course there are many ways to skin a cat, this seems like a very odd choice for organizing a database codebase. Some of the methods like cluster.HandleClientConnection() are crazy long for loop + if/else + switch + goto!

I know that you've said this is just kind of in your best interests codebase, but if I was planning on making any sort of dependencies on this project, I'd probably shy away from it because it seems like unmanageable spaghetti.

Re: Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

#48

Post by throwup238 »

latchkey wrote: post #47

Interesting product. I'm reading through the source and... Woah... it is all in one single file with zero unit tests. Of course there are many ways to skin a cat, this seems like a very odd choice for organizing a database codebase. Some of the methods like cluster.HandleClientConnection() are crazy long for loop + if/else + switch + goto! I know that you've said this is just kind of in your best interests codebase,…

> unmanageable spaghetti.

It's not even 3,000 lines. That's not a lot of spaghetti.

cluster.HandleClientConnection looks like a standard network service event loop, except the code is inline instead of spread across cluster.HandleSyncData, .HandleDelete, etc.

The lack of tests though...

Re: Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

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Post by alexpadula »

latchkey wrote: post #47

Interesting product. I'm reading through the source and... Woah... it is all in one single file with zero unit tests. Of course there are many ways to skin a cat, this seems like a very odd choice for organizing a database codebase. Some of the methods like cluster.HandleClientConnection() are crazy long for loop + if/else + switch + goto! I know that you've said this is just kind of in your best interests codebase,…

Just because you don’t see tests doesn’t mean that there weren’t any before or now. Really not unmanageable at the size of the code base for me. I do agree that method is long but I didn’t want to spread that and a few others across many others it was a design choice. I agree it could be improved but to not want to implement it because of that is your choice. The code is commented and continuously gets more comments and it’s very easy to follow if you read procedurally.

Re: Show HN: CursusDB – A new scalable distributed document oriented database

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Post by alexpadula »

throwup238 wrote: post #48
latchkey wrote: post #47

Interesting product. I'm reading through the source and... Woah... it is all in one single file with zero unit tests. Of course there are many ways to skin a cat, this seems like a very odd choice for organizing a database codebase. Some of the methods like cluster.HandleClientConnection() are crazy long for loop + if/else + switch + goto! I know that you've said this is just kind of in your best interests codebase,…

> unmanageable spaghetti. It's not even 3,000 lines. That's not a lot of spaghetti. cluster.HandleClientConnection looks like a standard network service event loop, except the code is inline instead of spread across cluster.HandleSyncData, .HandleDelete, etc. The lack of tests though...

If you guys really want me to post the tests I will. No problems!
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