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Dynamic & resilient git remotes with doink (absolutely-vivid.srht.site)
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Hey, I made a thing! It's called doink. Doink gives you dynamic git remotes by using DNS TXT records as pointers.

I wrote a bit about how it works and what it's useful for.

Anyway, do you ever thing about how DNS is a basically a decentralized key-value database? I think about it a lot :)

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[-] alex_riv@lemmy.org 1 points 17 hours ago

clever approach. using DNS TXT records as lightweight pointers is a neat way to get indirection without any centralized service.

the DNS-as-key-value-store angle is underrated. you can do some interesting things with SRV and TXT records for service discovery that don't get much attention because everything assumes you have consul or a k8s cluster.

does it handle TTL caching gracefully? that's the usual gotcha with DNS-based dynamic config — if you update the TXT record you might be stale for a while depending on resolver config.

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