Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database

https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/

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Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 274d (3 replies)
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 9 pts · 274d

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(Also, their contact info on that site is outdated and links to an older profile, which thankfully refers the viewer to the new one)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 pts · 274d

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 pts · 274d

This is so beautiful

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 274d (2 replies)

Its also incredibly fast.

anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 274d (1 reply)

Does /dev/null support sharding?

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 274d

If you use VMs, yeah

frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 274d

Cloudfare, OTOH, is not an ACID compliant database.

NoPanko@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 274d

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 pts · 274d (1 reply)

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

jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 274d

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

mormund@feddit.org · 4 pts · 274d
30p87@feddit.org · -6 pts · 274d

The CF outage has the huge benefit of clearly showing who claims to be technical but is dumb enough to host behind CF lol