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Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database (jyu.dev)
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[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 weeks ago

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

The author is on Mastodon under the handle @noqqe@tilde.zone

(Also, their contact info on that site is outdated and links to an older profile, which thankfully refers the viewer to the new one)

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of dev.null as an e-mail address, but perhaps the service is more useful(?). I had access to the back-end of the mail server in question and it literally had /dev/null in the configuration.

And yes, it ate any e-mails sent to it.

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

This is so beautiful

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

Its also incredibly fast.

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

Does /dev/null support sharding?

[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

If you use VMs, yeah

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago

Cloudfare, OTOH, is not an ACID compliant database.

[-] NoPanko@feddit.uk 12 points 3 weeks ago

I love that half the links i click on right now are just cloudflare errors, really loving the consequences of a centralised internet

[-] jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

archive link while cf remains down꧇ https://archive.ph/pmW1t

[-] jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

and then everything started working again(at least where I am)

[-] mormund@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Cached version, while Cloudflare is down: https://archive.is/20251024040409/https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/

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