About

I'm @brandur, an occasional writer, and engineer at Stripe and previously Heroku.

I most often talk about web APIs, Postgres, Rust, software safety and resilience, efficient human interfaces, and running.

Articles

Postgres: Boundless `text` and Back Again
The text type in Postgres, why it’s awesome, and why you might want to use varchar anyway. Also, a story about trying to get string parameters bounded at Stripe. September 10, 2021
How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres + Go
Touring the ORM and Postgres landscape in Go, and why sqlc is today’s top pick. September 8, 2021
Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL
A privacy and GDPR-friendly approach to producing basic and complex site analytics, and one which is more accurate in an age when adblockers reign supreme. February 16, 2021

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Idempotency keys @ Crunchy
Probably overkill for a relatively low traffic API, but I couldn’t help myself. November 25, 2021

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