About
I'm @brandur. I'm an engineer at Stripe and previously at Heroku. I talk mostly about bad design. And a few words on APIs, Postgres, software safety and resilience, efficient human interfaces, urban design, running, and metal.
Articles
- 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.
- Scaling Postgres with Read Replicas & Using WAL to Counter Stale Reads
Scaling out operation with read replicas and avoiding the downside of stale reads by observing replication progress.
- Redis Streams and the Unified Log
Building a log-based architecture that's fast, efficient, and resilient on the new stream data structure in Redis.
Older articles are available here.
Fragments
- 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.
- Mindfulness
On the importance of slowing down in the age of Slack and social media.
- Changing a universal constant: How 280-character tweets break an API
Even changing the length of a field is a backwards-incompatible change if it's deeply entrenched.
Older fragments are available here.
