I have not seen this around but it’s a pattern I use a lot in my own coding: I want data structured in a hierarchy I want to save it to disk I don’t want to use a database, I want to use plain old files and directories Why? Because I don’t want to lock the user in. Because I want to manipulate …

Repo seems to be at GitHub - ralsina/sepia: A serializer focused on storing a tree of objects to disk in an intuitive way

I love this! So many things absolutely do not need the performance of a database, but would benefit greatly by simple access to data via 5 decades of filesystem tools. Absolutely brilliant. (idea that is, can’t speak for the implementation, have not looked at it :) )

Sepia has recently gained some new capabilities: If you have an object that is a Sepia::Container and has properties, it serializes to a folder with a json file in it containing the properties. If any of those properties is a Sepia::Serializable then it’s serialized to a separate file according to…

New experimental features: Caching so I/O usage is lower Generations for stored items, so you have version history Disk watching support, so you could theoretically have two processes using the same store and they get notified when the other modifies things

Sepia: a object-hierarchy-to-disk serializer shard

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ralsina June 29, 2025, 2:57pm 5

The implementation still needs work and to be used in anger by someone other than me at some point :-D

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