Knowledge Was Collected #1
libSQL
Last week I learned about Turso, a company that provides SQLite as a service. Now I found that they actually open sourced their SQLite fork - libSQL with the MIT license, and it does have some pretty impressive features.
- It does have vector support with vector math.
- It also have a feature called sqld - an sqlite backend that allows to split data between multiple sqlite files for ease of access. Now it doesn’t shard data like we do, but it’s still very impressive.
The only unbreakable law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY
This one is a bit of a rabbit hole. A developer I respect deeply, Casey Muratori, gave a talk about his journey of finding a universal truth about software development, and found a few interesting ones.
- There is always a limit of how fast a development (or any) team can move, if the task requires communication. The video provides a formula, it’s very interesting.
- Every company only can produce copies of itself (Conways Law). It’s a bit hard to grasp at first, but it seems to be true. Casey is providing some neat and clever examples.
Enjoy!