Alphapuggle PieFedWhy /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database
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https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
The author is on Mastodon under the handle @noqqe@tilde.zone
(Also, their contact info on that site is outdated and links to an older profile, which thankfully refers the viewer to the new one)
Reminds me of dev.null as an e-mail address, but perhaps the service is more useful(?). I had access to the back-end of the mail server in question and it literally had
/dev/nullin the configuration.And yes, it ate any e-mails sent to it.
This is so beautiful
Its also incredibly fast.
Does
/dev/nullsupport sharding?If you use VMs, yeah
Cloudfare, OTOH, is not an ACID compliant database.
I love that half the links i click on right now are just cloudflare errors, really loving the consequences of a centralised internet
Cached version, while Cloudflare is down: https://archive.is/20251024040409/https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/
archive link while cf remains down꧇ https://archive.ph/pmW1t
and then everything started working again(at least where I am)