Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model

monkeydust•about 21 hours ago

Nice technique, learnt about here last month and have used a few times:

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-l...

poltora•3 days ago

I created an interactive map to better understand how Redis works

Each component links to the source code, and you can open the console to enter your own commands and watch the execution flow

flagdaaallm•about 22 hours ago

Not trying to rain on this parade. But it would be nice to know how much of this a person sat down and made. The captions all have the "X, not Y" tic, every component cites source by line number, and the site went from a post every few months to six in a week in four languages. Which all point to heavy LLM usage. It's not a crime. I'd probably use the robot to help build the thing too. It's just feels a bit icky on a Show HN.

poltora•about 18 hours ago

Most of the frontend was built using LLMs, just like the frontend for almost all my projects over the past year.

LLMs handle this task much better and faster than I do. I read the library's code and articles about its architecture, then visualized the concepts using GPT and local models.

I was pleased with the result and decided to publish it. Honestly, I see no point in creating such visualizations manually these days - a model can do it much faster and better.

As for the articles, I write them entirely myself. There are more of them now because I built a bot that takes posts from my Telegram channel, translates them into three languages, and publishes them to the site.

seer•about 23 hours ago

Looks beautiful thank you! Looking at it though I keep thinking - would understand it better if it was factorio :-D

soltanov•1 day ago

it is very beautifull idea and implementation. Open source available? It is good material for teaching how redis works.

TZubiri•about 19 hours ago

It's just value(key) over the network, is there much that needs explaining? With 3d or otherwise.

mglvsky•about 19 hours ago

that could be "new" technique to use agents in software development: instead of tiresome prompting/reviewing large swathes of text - pointing to specific area in a map, just like in a strategic videogame

radicalbit•about 1 hour ago

this is so cool! thanks for building this.

sgt•about 22 hours ago

Will this become a trend? When the client asks you for an architecture diagram, you respond with a 3d world.

monkeydust•about 16 hours ago

Which is modeled in Unity which you can walk around in VR...for kicks maybe though could unlock something in the mind...spatial computing is an interesting field.

suburban_strike•about 13 hours ago

VRML came and went decades ago, it never really took off.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7•about 24 hours ago

https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063754

arpanghoshal07•about 20 hours ago

my tiny brain can understand 2d better

captainkrtek•1 day ago

very cool, fun to visualize :-)

wartywhoa23•about 20 hours ago

Looks fun but adds nothing of educational value to the textual descritpions.

dvh•1 day ago

"It's a UNIX system! I know this!"

pezezin•about 21 hours ago

"The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see."

edwardbonnett•about 12 hours ago

could you add a way to slow it down a bit?

sshussain270•1 day ago

Is it live on some redis?

comboy•about 24 hours ago

There's a console and you can track your command! Very cool. Not sure if 3D is needed but very cool nonetheless, It might be that some things are missing (I don't know redis internals though) like some encoding step when getting data back to client, managing client connections and their state (multi, watch) etc.

__bax•about 22 hours ago

@antirez may like it

DylanMerigaud•about 21 hours ago

Clean launch, good luck!

carpe__diem•1 day ago

wow looks really fun

tomaskafka•about 23 hours ago

3D model is almost like 2D diagram, only needlessly confusing and slop.

vivzkestrel•1 day ago

add this to list of S-tier HN resources https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183198

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