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Nick Babcock

nickb.dev

A blog by developer Nick Babcock, who has been documenting his journey through web development, performance, Rust, Wasm, and homelab management for a decade.

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Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (2017)

Caveat: Elasticsearch is a multi-purpose, distributed, battle-tested, schema-free, log and document storage engine. We’ll be replacing it with a single-purpose, relational schema, me-tested, and custom nginx access log storage engine. Knowing that, let’s begin. Find this project on Github After building my home…