Building a Redis-Compatible Key/Value Server in Zig with Static Memory Allocation
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Summary
The article discusses the development of 'kv', a Redis-compatible key/value server implemented in Zig programming language, focusing on the technique of static memory allocation where all memory is allocated from the OS at startup and held until termination. The author explains their motivation for building this project as a learning exercise in systems programming and Zig, while aiming for production-readiness with a limited command subset.
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· 4 pulledThe world doesn't necessarily need another key/value store, I'm just interested in implementing it in Zig and learning about some new (to me) techniques for systems programming.
One of those techniques is static memory allocation during initialization. The idea here is that all memory is requested and allocated from the OS at startup, and held until termination.
Over the past few months I've been chipping away at a small Redis-compatible key/value server called kv.
The goal is to have something (mostly) production-ready, while implementing only a small subset of commands.
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