About
I'm @brandur. I'm an engineer at Stripe (previously Heroku), and occasional writer.
I most often talk about web APIs, Postgres, Rust, software safety and resilience, efficient human interfaces, and running.
Articles
- Tweeting for 10,000 Years: An Experiment in Autonomous Software
Using the design principles of a 10,000 year clock to build a program that's intended to run on a macro timescale.
- Living APIs, and the Case for GraphQL
Why it makes sense to model APIs as graphs, and what GraphQL can do for us to help with discovery, batch operations, and gradual enhancement.
- Scaling a High-traffic Rate Limiting Stack With Redis Cluster
Flattening a single very hot vertical Redis node into a horizontal Redis Cluster at Stripe.
- Touring a Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust
A detailed look at the frameworks, concurrency model, error handling, middleware constructs, and testing strategies of a web service written in Rust.
- Speed and Stability: Why Go is a Great Fit for Lambda
Why Go's stability and simple deployments is a good fit for a serverless environment.
Older articles are available here.
Fragments
- The subtleties of API contracts, or how enabling HTTP/2 broke Go clients
A lesson in how API contracts can extend beyond function signatures.
- Caffeine
A personal experiment in seriously throttling back my caffeine intake for the first time in years.
- Reflections on Rust, and the sand castle metaphor
Some personal progress with Rust.
- The 500 test
Let's build more resilient services by paying attention to the edges.
- 100 days with Rust, or, a series of brick walls
A few thoughts on Rust after a few months of regular use.
Older fragments are available here.
