diff --git a/index.lua b/index.lua
index 078ac12..aa834e8 100644
--- a/index.lua
+++ b/index.lua
@@ -1,30 +1,21 @@
 -- [boundary.com] Redis Lua Plugin
 -- [author] Ivano Picco <ivano.picco@pianobit.com>
 
--- Requires.
+-- Common requires.
 local utils = require('utils')
-local uv_native = require ('uv_native')
-local string = require('string')
-local split = require('split')
-local redis = require('luvit-redis')
 local timer = require('timer')
-local ffi = require ('ffi')
 local fs = require('fs')
 local json = require('json')
+local os = require ('os')
+local tools = require ('tools')
+
 local success, boundary = pcall(require,'boundary')
 if (not success) then
   boundary = nil 
 end
 
--- portable gethostname syscall
-ffi.cdef [[
-  int gethostname (char *, int);
-]]
-function gethostname()
-  local buf = ffi.new("uint8_t[?]", 256)
-  ffi.C.gethostname(buf,256);
-  return ffi.string(buf)
-end
+-- Business requires.
+local redis = require('luvit-redis')
 
 -- Default parameters.
 local pollInterval = 10000
@@ -41,7 +32,7 @@ _parameters.pollInterval =
 
 _parameters.source =
   (type(_parameters.source) == 'string' and _parameters.source:gsub('%s+', '') ~= '' and _parameters.source ~= nil and _parameters.source) or
-  gethostname()
+  os.hostname()
 
 _parameters.host = 
   (type(_parameters.host) == 'string' and _parameters.host:gsub('%s+', '') ~= '' and _parameters.host) or 
@@ -76,7 +67,7 @@ end
 
 -- Parse line (i.e. line: "connected_clients : <value>").
 function parseEachLine(line)
-  local t = split(line,':')
+  local t = tools.split(line,':')
   if (#t == 2) then
     currentValues[t[1]]=t[2];
   end
@@ -91,7 +82,7 @@ function outputs()
   utils.print('REDIS_KEY_EVICTIONS', diffvalues('evicted_keys'), _parameters.source)
   utils.print('REDIS_COMMANDS_PROCESSED', diffvalues('total_commands_processed'), _parameters.source)
   utils.print('REDIS_CONNECTIONS_RECEIVED', diffvalues('total_connections_received'), _parameters.source)
-  utils.print('REDIS_USED_MEMORY', currentValues.used_memory_rss / uv_native.getTotalMemory(), _parameters.source)
+  utils.print('REDIS_USED_MEMORY', currentValues.used_memory_rss / os.totalmem(), _parameters.source)
 end
 
 -- Get current values.
diff --git a/modules/split/package.lua b/modules/split/package.lua
deleted file mode 100644
index 119a318..0000000
--- a/modules/split/package.lua
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-return {
-  name = 'split',
-  version = '0.0.1',
-  description = 'split string to a table',
-  author = 'Ivano Picco <ivano.piccopianobit.com>',
-  main = 'src/init.lua'
-}
diff --git a/modules/split/src/init.lua b/modules/split/src/init.lua
deleted file mode 100644
index af52e92..0000000
--- a/modules/split/src/init.lua
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-local string=require('string');
-
-exports = function (inputstr, sep)
-        if sep == nil then
-                sep = "%s"
-        end
-        local t={} ; local i=1
-        for str in string.gmatch(inputstr, "([^"..sep.."]+)") do
-                t[i] = str
-                i = i + 1
-        end
-        return t
-end
-
-return exports
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diff --git a/modules/tools.lua b/modules/tools.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6430598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/tools.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+--
+-- Module.
+--
+local tools = {}
+
+
+-- Requires.
+local string = require('string')
+
+--
+-- Limit a given number x between two boundaries.
+-- Either min or max can be nil, to fence on one side only.
+--
+tools.fence = function(x, min, max)
+  return (min and x < min and min) or (max and x > max and max) or x
+end
+
+--
+-- Encode data in Base64 format.
+--
+tools.base64 = function(data)
+  local _lookup = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'
+  return ((data:gsub('.', function(x)
+    local r, b = '', x:byte()
+    for i = 8, 1, -1 do
+      r = r .. (b % 2 ^ i - b % 2 ^ (i - 1) > 0 and '1' or '0')
+    end
+    return r
+  end) .. '0000'):gsub('%d%d%d?%d?%d?%d?', function(x)
+    if #x < 6 then
+      return ''
+    end
+    local c = 0
+    for i = 1, 6 do
+      c = c + (x:sub(i, i) == '1' and 2 ^ (6 - i) or 0)
+    end
+    return _lookup:sub(c + 1, c + 1)
+  end) .. ({
+    '',
+    '==',
+    '='
+  })[#data % 3 + 1])
+end
+
+
+--
+-- Split a string into a table
+-- 
+
+tools.split = function (inputstr, sep)
+        if sep == nil then
+                sep = "%s"
+        end
+        local t={} ; local i=1
+        for str in string.gmatch(inputstr, "([^"..sep.."]+)") do
+                t[i] = str
+                i = i + 1
+        end
+        return t
+end
+
+--
+-- Export.
+--
+return tools
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