Alex Reid

To be fair, it’s more accurate to say that I wrote a data compiler.

Running the existing patchbay DSL on a microcontroller

One config file replaces the demux, round, dedupe glue every market data consumer rewrites

Try out monoblok via the NATS CLI without installing anything.

monoblok is a small, NATS-compatible broker that does deadband, debounce, dedupe, demux and last-value cache in flight, so subscribers don't have to.

Excel probably shouldn't work as a stream processor.

An open source framework for writing native Excel add-ins in Zig, and the foundation that xllify is built on.

I have used NATS on various projects over the years.

End of year thoughts - 2022 edition

Druid stores immutable events, not records that can be updated at any time.

It is not always feasible to run an entire system composed from microservices locally.

Some odd jobs done on the 996 this week

A clean bill of health for the 996

For SEO reasons, we might want to include page numbers in URLs when displaying a large set of items.

Headlight upgrade

Making Radio 2 sound a bit better

Journey to buying my Porsche 996

I squeezed ClickHouse into Cloud Run.

Using a Raspberry Pi to expose an OLED panel as a thing that can be easily interacted with.

A beginners look at Druid, a datastore designed to ingest high volumes of events and provide fast querying.

Back in my early teens when I started developing what could loosely be called software, I didn’t know what I was doing.