I'm @brandur, an occasional writer, and engineer on Crunchy Bridge, previously Stripe and Heroku.
I most often talk about web APIs, Postgres, Rust, software safety and resilience, efficient human interfaces, and running.
River: a Fast, Robust Job Queue for Go + Postgres
Introducing River, a Postgres-based job queue designed for resilience and correctness through strong transactional guarantees. November 20, 2023
How and why we started annotating all our Go tests with t.Parallel()
, and why you might want to consider doing so too. August 26, 2023
Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It
The traditional soft deletion pattern using deleted_at
columns leaks into code, curbs the usefulness of foreign keys, and makes data removal difficult. Luckily, there’s an alternative. July 19, 2022
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On the use of words like “simple”, “elegant”, and “elegant” in the sense of software. October 14, 2023
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