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"WAL-E compresses using lzop as a separate process, as well as the command cat to prevent disk I/O from blocking." Good to see people sticking to the unix phil
by jarym 9y ago
"WAL-E compresses using lzop as a separate process, as well as the command cat to prevent disk I/O from blocking."
Good to see people sticking to the unix philosophy of doing one thing well and delegating other concerns - cat and lzop are both fine choices!
- wmf 9y agoI don't know if you're being sarcastic, because the point of the article is that the Unix philosophy was a performance bottleneck and they replaced all the Unixy stuff with Go libraries.
- jarym 9y agoI wasn't being sarcastic - I like the fact that they replaced what needed replacing and kept what worked well.