tigris VS tsdb-layer

You can learn more about fly.io and tigris, we will need to create an account on both platforms for this project regardless. Anyway with the theory out of the way let's get started in the next section as we create our accounts and start building the app.

Sounds like you might be interested in the Tigris preview:

- https://www.tigrisdata.com/

- https://benhoyt.com/writings/flyio-and-tigris/ (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360870)

- https://fly.io/docs/reference/tigris/

Tigris: an open source Serverless NoSQL Database and Search platform

Tigris is an open source serverless NoSQL database and search platform. If you have any questions, or you'd like to contribute to the Tigris open source project.

To try the Tigirs database with express app, visit: https://www.tigrisdata.com/ Signup, and create a test app. It'll provide a command set of npm. Create an express app using it and you'll be able to explore the codebase and queries.

Tigris(https://github.com/tigrisdata/tigris) is one of the supported FerretDB backends and Tigris is backed by FoundationDB, so you can still have the Mongo interface with the reliability and scaling of FDB if that's what you're looking for

Based on the feedback in this thread I have updated the headline on the website to make it about what the product is and moved down the "MongoDB alternative" part. I hope it is more clearer now: https://www.tigrisdata.com/

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Nand2tetris is pretty awesome if you don’t already have strong CS fundamentals and feel like you “know how computers work”. If you had a good C.S education though you may not get much out of it.

Here is a cool one I worked on awhile ago when I wanted to learn more about foundationDB: https://github.com/richardartoul/tsdb-layer

A long time ago I wanted to learn about regular expression engines so I wrote a tiny one: https://github.com/richardartoul/regex-engine

I built this with some friends a few years ago: https://hyperdash.io/ (building the backend for this was a good learning experience and I learned a lot about writing multi threaded software making the python SDK).

Those are just some examples to give you an idea, but to be honest it’s hard to give a good answer because side projects are deeply personal.

It takes serious discipline and motivation to spend your nights and weekends writing code when that’s how you spend your working hours as well, so it’s really gonna be about what motivates you and will keep you engaged while also gaining “high leverage” skills (anything fundamental in the realm of networking, compilers, databases, data structures, etc. basically anything that’s not just another language or framework)