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Re: Fefe is back

#12
"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres"

He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headers

https://www.fefe.de

https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...

Re: Fefe is back

#13

"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres" He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headers https://www.fefe.de https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...

"djbdns is a full blown DNS server which outperforms BIND in nearly all respects."

https://web.archive.org/web/20250915201551if_/https://www.fe...

Re: Fefe is back

#14

"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres" He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headers https://www.fefe.de https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...

Wait, what's wrong with Postgres? I'm not super experienced with DBs, but I thought Postgres was the engineer's choice.

Re: Fefe is back

#15

"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres" He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headers https://www.fefe.de https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...

Wait, what's wrong with Postgres? I'm not super experienced with DBs, but I thought Postgres was the engineer's choice.

There’s no need for a full-blown RDBMS for a simple blog

Re: Fefe is back

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, what's wrong with Postgres? I'm not super experienced with DBs, but I thought Postgres was the engineer's choice.

There’s no need for a full-blown RDBMS for a simple blog

Right - I guess I would expect "No SQL" or "No database", rather than the specific call-out of Postgres.

Re: Fefe is back

#17

"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres" He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headers https://www.fefe.de https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...

Perhaps the blog is using the author's own database software, tinyldap

https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/

https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe...

Hence the comment about not using Postgres

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