When you want to store, index and search MBs of text inside of RavenDB

A scenario came up from a user that was quite interesting to explore. Let’s us assume that we want to put the Gutenberg Project inside of RavenDB. An initial attempt for doing that would look like this: I’m skipping a lot of the details, but the most important field here is the Content field. That contains the actual text of the book. On last…

Tzunami Uses RavenDB NoSQL Database to Help Enterprises Migrate to Their Ideal Cloud Platform

Digitally speaking, your cloud is your office. Companies migrate their internet resources, employee files, and shared resources to a single platform where it’s all hosted. If you want to move from one physical location to another, you need to hire movers. Tzunami is the digital equivalent. They move files – lots of them. When companies…

RavenDB 5.3: New Tools to Enrich Your Data

RavenDB CEO Oren Eini shows you how to stay consistently competitive in our forever-changing data landscape using these new enhancements in RavenDB 5.3.

A PKI-less secure communication channel: Using TLS

After spending so much time building my own protocol, I decided to circle back a bit and go back to TLS itself and see if I can get the same thing for it that I make on my own. As a reminder, here is what we achieved: Trust established between nodes in the system via a back channel, not Public Key Interface. For example, I can have: On the client…

A PKI-less secure communication channel: Error handling at the protocol level

One of the things that I find myself paying a lot of attention to is the error handling portion of writing software. This is one of the cases where I’m sounding puffy even to my own ears, but from over two decades of experience, I can tell you that getting error handling right is one of the most important things that you can do for  your systems.…

Coding After Work

In this episode, Oren Eini takes you back to where it all started. The struggle, the reasoning behind it, and the solution; RavenDB. You’ll also get to hear some stories about when to use document databases and not.

Oren Eini talk about Performance Architecture (Dotnetos Conference 2021)

A PKI-less secure communication channel: Implementing the record stream

We now have managed to do a proper handshake and both client and server has a shared key. The client has also verified that the server is who they thought it should be, the server knows who the client is and can lookup whatever authorization such a client is ought to get. The next step we have to take is actually starting sending data over the…

A PKI-less secure communication channel: Coding the handshake

After figuring out the design, let’s see what it would take to actually write a secured communication channel, sans PKI, in code. I’m going to use Zig as the language of choice here. It is as low level as C, but so much nicer to work with. To actually implement the cryptographic details, I’m going to lean on libsodium to do all the heavy lifting.…