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tigerbeetle | OkHttp | |
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44 | 43 | |
6,534 | 45,175 | |
45.5% | 0.4% | |
9.9 | 9.3 | |
6 days ago | 2 days ago | |
Zig | Kotlin | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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tigerbeetle
- Factor is faster than Zig
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The Raft Consensus Algorithm
Maelstrom [1], a workbench for learning distributed systems from the creator of Jepsen, includes a simple (model-checked) implementation of Raft and an excellent tutorial on implementing it.
Raft is a simple algorithm, but as others have noted, the original paper includes many correctness details often brushed over in toy implementations. Furthermore, the fallibility of real-world hardware (handling memory/disk corruption and grey failures), the requirements of real-world systems with tight latency SLAs, and a need for things like flexible quorum/dynamic cluster membership make implementing it for production a long and daunting task. The commit history of etcd and hashicorp/raft, likely the two most battle-tested open source implementations of raft that still surface correctness bugs on the regular tell you all you need to know.
The tigerbeetle team talks in detail about the real-world aspects of distributed systems on imperfect hardware/non-abstracted system models, and why they chose viewstamp replication, which predates Paxos but looks more like Raft.
[1]: https://github.com/jepsen-io/maelstrom/
[2]: https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/DE...
- Fastest Branchless Binary Search
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CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
> There is no reason to use a memory unsafe language anymore, except legacy codebases, and that is also slowly but surely diminishing. I'm still yet to hear this amazingly compelling reason that you just need memory unsafe languages. In terms of cost/benefits analysis, memory unsafety is literally all costs.
Tell that to the authors of new memory unsafe languages (like Zig) and creators of new project in those languages (like https://tigerbeetle.com) :(
- Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them
- File for Divorce from LLVM
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Zap – fast back ends in Zig
Seeing this, and the use of zig for https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle I wonder if zig might become a good tradeoff vs rust for servers if in long term it's more readable and maintainable and with a different approach to quality.
I would also be interested to hear the compile time, binary size and memory usage of those example apps.
Looks like the underlying facil.io library hasn't seen any commits since 2021, so that's a bit of a red flag. https://github.com/boazsegev/facil.io
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Significant examples of Zig software (June 2023)?
About three years ago, we had a thread called "Significant examples of Zig software?". Some time has passed, and there have been fairly large Zig code bases that have surfaced since, such as TigerBeetle (cc /u/eatonphil), or adoption at places like Uber.
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I think Zig is hard but worth it
This is basically what I've come to do in the Zig scripts I write at work.
It took a bit of getting used to when I joined but we agreed as a team to have all meaningful scripts written in Zig not bash (for one, bash doesn't work on Windows without WSL and we need to support Windows builds/testing/etc.).
It makes about as much sense as any other cross-platform scripting option once I got used to it!
Some examples:
Docs generation: https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/c...
Integration testing sample code: https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/c...
Running a command wrapped in a TigerBeetle server run: https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/c...
OkHttp
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Consuming and Testing third party API's using Spring Webclient
We will use Square’s Mock Webserver to spin up a mock server which we can use to simulate real api's request to the get coffee endpoint.
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Chat with any GPT right through your favorite text editor
OkHttp Documentation
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Introduction to HTTP Multipart
You can technically add a Content-Length header for each part. It's not forbidden by the RFC, but nor is it common. It caused [problems](https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/2138) for OkHttp, and they eventually removed it. Might be fine for internal-only use, though.
Boundaries are a lot like UUIDs, and rely on the same logic. When generating random data, once you have enough bits, the odds are against that sequence of bits ever having been generated before in the universe.
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Introducing Bld: A New Pure Java Build System
Lets be specific. This is the gradle build file for Squares okhttp client library. How exactly would your bld tool "predict" or "help" with all the parameters needed? There is no need to be defensive. Replace those large build files with your own, show where your approach is better and then understanding will lead to better solutions.
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What stack to use for app with functionality like event calendar?
Retrofit in combination with OkHttp for fetching data from server (which hopefully already exists)
- Generate Kotlin client for a complex web API
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Modern Android Development in 2023
OkHttp
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Is it acceptable to use mock servers, like Postman, for testing in Android?
Being more familiar with Android development only, I mainly use https://github.com/square/okhttp/tree/master/mockwebserver
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Best libraries for Android Developers
Retrofit is the best library that lets you connect to HTTP-based API services from your Android applications. It leverages the OkHttp library’s core functionality, adding a bunch of features to it while eliminating the boilerplate code.
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How to use Cronet Engine for API calls? Any simple repo for it to understand?
Use Retrofit or anything else that builds on OkHttp. If you do end up needing some features that Cronet supports but OkHttp doesn't (such as HTTP/3), just write an interceptor or use google/cronet-transport-for-okhttp.
What are some alternatives?
unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java
Netty - Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework
Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM
Android Volley
gRPC - The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC
android-async-http - An asynchronous, callback-based Http client for Android built on top of Apache's HttpClient libraries.
Finagle - A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system
Dubbo - The java implementation of Apache Dubbo. An RPC and microservice framework.
Undertow - High performance non-blocking webserver
okio - A modern I/O library for Android, Java, and Kotlin Multiplatform.
Fetch - The best file downloader library for Android