Congrats on launching! Was following along with the development, glad to see it launched

Thanks Steve. Your feedback was very helpful.

The README doesn’t seem to explain _why_ it is faster. Is it just highly hand-optimized? Is there some main technique used?

Yes, it is highly hand optimized. There's a description of some of the methods I used near the bottom of there README. I mainly focused on minimizing contention, with the sharded hashmap and such. But the networking layer is carefully crafted.

I thought I recognized the tidwall name - Josh is also responsible for tg which is a really neat, very tight C geospatial library: https://github.com/tidwall/tg

Supporting HTTP, Redis and PostgreSQL protocols at the same time is a neat trick!

  psql -h localhost -p 9401
  => SET mykey 'my value';
  => GET mykey;
  => DEL mykey;

Always great to see his open-source creations, like:

- a Redis like cache purpose built for real-time spatial locations: https://tile38.com/

- go package for reading JSON: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson

Really looks fascinating.. Might need a deeper dive.

Also.. like, it says that you plan on supporting sql? is this true? What does that actually mean really since I guess it might then compete with things like sqlite/duckdb?

Genuinely curious, great project! Starred!

Not intending to make pogocache into a sql database. I prefer keeping it a cache. More so exploring ways to work with existing databases such as sqlite, duckdb, postgres. Kinda like providing proxy-ish operations that transparently cache sql reads.

Is the name related to Tadej Pogacar?

Hah I had the same question! Thought the project was aptly named if referring to the cycling champ if that’s what it was meant to be.

+1

No

Very interesting. Like the idea of using http, redis, or even PostgreSQL clients.

Is there a way to provide the auth password via an envar instead of a command line arg?

    pogocache --auth mypass

That's the only way right now. The other ways I'm considering is with an environment variable and/or acl.

May I suggest the ability to specific a path to a file that it is then read from.

very nice