I'm keen on all kinds of embedded systems. An electrical engineer by training, I've co-founded two startups and worked in agritech IoT, satellite comms, and Forth/Python/Lua language embedding.
I ride a unicycle and dream of building a self-propelled, self-bouncing, autonomous basketball. But I've never gotten around to it, because I've been distracted by the way to know the Creator-God … and, me-oh-my, but that's a marvellous possibility!
I do embedded systems design: both hardware and software – preferably close to the metal. But do be aware that I'm often full-up.
Oct 24, 2023 · 4 min read · Objectives My customer has web applications written in PHP, accessing an M database. For various reasons they are committed to a dynamic language, and are considering Lua as a lightweight option. Here are their primary objectives: Cleaner access to ...
Join discussionOct 24, 2023 · 4 min read · I needed to compare several Lua web server software packages for raw speed. This proved to be rather difficult because one web request generator after another had problems. In the end, I found what I needed, and produced an article benchmarking OpenR...
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Oct 24, 2023 · 2 min read · This is an update to version 1 of my blog article that benchmarked Lua alternatives to OpenResty. Several parties replied to inform me of some impressive alternatives, so I have added benchmarks for redbean and nginx-lws, two good options for Lua 5.4...
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Sep 20, 2023 · 4 min read · The problem One of my customers, the University of Antwerp, wants to switch from PHP to Lua 5.4 for their web apps that access their library catalogue product. OpenResty is the obvious choice of web stack ... but it doesn't support Lua 5.4. Everyone ...
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Sep 20, 2023 · 20 min read · TLDR: YottaDB is a fast and clean database and it deserves a Lua API that is as fast as possible. This article discusses how we improved lua-yottadb to go ~4× as fast when looping through database records, and a stunning 47× as fast when creating Lua...
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