Hello again, everyone! It's Owen. 👋

Back in March, I posted about how I over-engineered my first project by building a hybrid Zig + TypeScript cache engine called Dunena , and then deployed it on Kubernetes because... honestly I still don't fully know why. 😅

The response was really encouraging, especially the detailed audit from Kowshik in the comments. Since then I've been heads-down building, and Dunena has grown into something I genuinely didn't expect when I first pushed that repo.

Let me catch you up.

🔢 By the Numbers

The project went from a fun experiment to a proper versioned release. We're now at v0.3.1 , with a full changelog, release pipeline, Helm charts, a Python SDK, and more. The codebase has grown across multiple packages in the monorepo and I've learned an embarrassing amount along the way.

🆕 What's New

ARC Eviction Policy

The original Dunena only had LRU. I then added LFU.…