rosebud dictionary take home test
as described by Alexandru:
implement an in-memory dictionary database with a corresponding client. The database stores ASCII encoded english words and needs to support at least the following operations:
- Insert a word (i.e.
$ client insert <word>which exits with 0 to confirm the word is now present in the database).- Search for a word (i.e.
$ client search <word>which exits with 0 if the word is found in the database).- Remove a word (i.e.
$ client remove <word>which exits with 0 to confirm the word is no longer present in the database).The database and clients will be run on a single machine. The database needs to store up to 1 million unique words at any time and the clients should be able to run concurrently. You can use any language or libraries you want as long as I can run everything on an x86_64 Linux machine after following any setup instructions.
I'm going to use elixir and first attempt with erlang's disk based term storage, which I've never used, barring that I'll use postgres, barring that i'll use mongo.
I intend to implement the minimal solution as specified, then enhance until I'm bored or run out of reasonable alloc of time.
- 2022 09 01 10:58 - got horked environment probably working: erlang, elixir, git/ssh
- 2022 09 01 11:11 - running into build issues of stub with escript.build
- 2022 09 01 11:30 - shower
- 2022 09 01 13:00 - baby time
- 2022 09 01 13:50 - first draft complete