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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 194 days ago
"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres"

He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd serving the blog (gatling/0.17) according the headers

https://www.fefe.de

https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...
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1vuio0pswjnm7 191 days ago
Perhaps the blog is using the author's own database software, tinyldap

https://www.fefe.de/tinyldap/

https://web.archive.org/web/20251005120013if_/https://www.fe...

Hence the comment about not using Postgres

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1vuio0pswjnm7 194 days ago
"djbdns is a full blown DNS server which outperforms BIND in nearly all respects."

https://web.archive.org/web/20250915201551if_/https://www.fe...

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happytoexplain 194 days ago
Wait, what's wrong with Postgres? I'm not super experienced with DBs, but I thought Postgres was the engineer's choice.
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freidenker 191 days ago
There’s no need for a full-blown RDBMS for a simple blog
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happytoexplain 191 days ago
Right - I guess I would expect "No SQL" or "No database", rather than the specific call-out of Postgres.
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