Facebook Rocks: Another database open sourced by Facebook? Yup, and demonstrating that the term “database” covers a lot of ground, Facebook’s latest is RocksDB, an embedded key-value store for those userfacing situations where you need a lot of woosh, little latency. Lead developer, Dhurba Borthakur, explains in a blog posting that RocksDB is based on Google’s LevelDB and is tuned to run on many-core servers which making efficient use of storage to cut down on write wear. It’s implemented as a C++ library with arbitrary byte streams for keys and values and all the major components are pluggable and replaceable. It’s published under a BSD licence and comes with an additional patent licence.
OSI gets a GM: The Open Source Initiative has long been a purely volunteer organisation and that has limited what it has been able to do. But that’s changing with the appointment of the first employee, Patrick Masson, who’s taken on the post of General Manager at the OSI. Masson has introduced himself to the membership and is setting out on his tasks of running working groups, expanding membership and updating the OSI’s communications. It’ll be interesting to see what a difference it makes.
Cosmic Sans Neue: Who doesn’t like programmer fonts with their mono-spaced elegance? But maybe you want something a tiny bit quirkier. Check out Cosmic Sans Neue Mono, which has a tiny bit of quirkyness, not only in it’s name but in some of the character shapes. You can also find it on GitHub and it’s available under the SIL Open Font Licence
This article was imported from the original CodeScaling blog