been busy

[Jak Sprats]

Hi,

someone just told me that this message was showing up on this dev
group:
Zipped versions of the pages and files associated with this group will
be available for download until August 31, 2011. After this date, this
feature and the zip file downloads will be turned off permanently.
Download pages | Download Files

I guess this is a sign that I have been neglecting this use-group
completely :)

sorry.

Alchemy is still being very actively developed, but I am being paid by
the company CodeFutures (makers of dbShards) and am not yet allowed to
open source the last 4-5 months of work (which is lame, but it will
change).

Alchemy has a lot of new features and has been battle-tested in
several production environments so it is much more stable ...

I will try to keep this use-group alive and more importantly try to
pressure my current sponsors to open source the updated (much improved
code).

- Jak

[minkymorgan]

>> someone just told me

Yes, that was me. Hey well done on the sponsorship - nice to get
funding to do what you love.
Will they release alchemy as a product, offer support or that type of
thing?

I'm looking forward to hearing about the new features.

[Jak Sprats]

> nice to get funding to do what you love.

yeah definitely, its funny though when you get funding you do
considerably less of what you love :)

> Will they release alchemy as a product, offer support or that type of thing?

AlchemyDB is being integrated into another larger product as an
enhancement. I legally can not say much more about it, but the upside
is, when I get to open source the parts that can be open sourced it
will be rock solid and tested in many production environments, so a
real product/project.

> I'm looking forward to hearing about the new features.

I am looking forward to writing/finishing/ and releasing them ...
Some I can talk about are:
1.) always up to date w/ current redis codebase
2.) native lua triggers on relational tables (suprisingly useful -
FAST)
3.) query optimiser
4.) new indexes (LRU, LFU, etc...)
.....
the cool ones I can not talk about yet, but they were good enough to
get the project sponsored.