brandur

POSTS

• The Stainless SDK Generator

  by brandur on 4/24/2024, 4:34 PM with 63 comments

• Postgres Goodies in Ruby on Rails 7.1

  by brandur on 10/17/2023, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• Understanding Postgres IOPS

  by brandur on 9/27/2023, 6:30 PM with 0 comments

• Guidance for Scaling: Reversible vs. irreversible decisions (2022)

  by brandur on 6/16/2023, 3:12 AM with 4 comments

• Will Postgres Use My Index? Hypothetical Indexing for Postgres

  by brandur on 2/3/2023, 9:29 PM with 0 comments

• EIDs (Encoded IDs)

  by brandur on 2/2/2022, 1:17 AM with 7 comments

• Control Runaway Postgres Queries with Statement Timeout

  by brandur on 7/7/2021, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

• Simulating Update or Delete with Limit in Postgres: CTEs to the Rescue

  by brandur on 5/26/2021, 6:14 PM with 0 comments

• Deep PostgreSQL Thoughts: Resistance to Containers Is Futile

  by brandur on 2/18/2021, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• Deep PostgreSQL Thoughts: The Linux Assassin

  by brandur on 2/16/2021, 10:51 PM with 0 comments

• The Answer Is Postgres; the Question Is How?

  by brandur on 2/8/2021, 6:45 PM with 4 comments

• R Predictive Analytics in Data Science Work Using PostgreSQL

  by brandur on 1/15/2021, 3:31 AM with 0 comments

• Postgres: The Batteries Included Database

  by brandur on 11/23/2020, 8:47 PM with 0 comments

• Crunchy Bridge: A modern, multi-cloud Postgres as a service

  by brandur on 9/21/2020, 4:18 PM with 5 comments

• Actix Web: Optimization Amongst Optimizations

  by brandur on 1/5/2020, 5:00 PM with 14 comments

• \watch-ing Star Wars in Postgres

  by brandur on 12/17/2018, 3:21 PM with 0 comments

• Scalable incremental data aggregation on Postgres and Citus

  by brandur on 6/18/2018, 2:16 PM with 8 comments

• Fun with SQL: generate_series in Postgres

  by brandur on 3/18/2018, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon Aurora Postgres: First Thoughts

  by brandur on 2/3/2018, 6:38 PM with 17 comments

• A step by step guide for building multi-tenant web applications with .NET Core

  by brandur on 1/23/2018, 11:29 PM with 0 comments

• Building robustly with ACID databases, or why Postgres is often the right choice

  by brandur on 5/21/2017, 12:58 PM with 0 comments

• Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

  by brandur on 2/25/2017, 8:55 PM with 82 comments

• The TTY demystified (2008)

  by brandur on 2/4/2017, 8:44 PM with 0 comments

• 2016 was a hard year to be an Apple fan

  by brandur on 12/30/2016, 5:57 PM with 1 comments

• It’s a-me: How Super Mario became a global cultural icon

  by brandur on 12/28/2016, 4:39 PM with 45 comments

• Jwz: Webcasting Legally (2007)

  by brandur on 12/11/2016, 8:14 PM with 1 comments

• Show HN: Redis-cell, an API rate limiter as a Redis module, written in Rust

  by brandur on 11/17/2016, 6:00 PM with 1 comments

• Making Terminal Applications in Rust with Termion

  by brandur on 10/6/2016, 3:56 PM with 0 comments

• Making Up Ground (The gold rush era ships under San Francisco)

  by brandur on 9/17/2016, 1:18 PM with 0 comments

• The Pleasures of Drowning (on Brazilian jiu-jitsu and self-deception) (2012)

  by brandur on 9/17/2016, 11:00 AM with 0 comments

• The Most Exclusive Restaurant in America

  by brandur on 8/28/2016, 5:56 PM with 1 comments

• The meaning of trust in the age of Airbnb

  by brandur on 8/19/2016, 9:24 AM with 0 comments

• New Stripe docs: redesigned layout and richer code snippets

  by brandur on 8/18/2016, 4:47 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing Heroku Teams

  by brandur on 6/9/2016, 4:21 PM with 1 comments

• Tim Harford: An economist’s dreams of a fairer gig economy

  by brandur on 1/7/2016, 3:57 AM with 0 comments

• T-Shirts Unravelled (data on changes in size over time and sizes between brands)

  by brandur on 1/6/2016, 7:28 PM with 0 comments

• Rate Limiting, Cells, and GCRA (+ Go Implementation, Throttled)

  by brandur on 9/19/2015, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Legacy Projects and the Maintainer

  by brandur on 8/14/2015, 5:58 AM with 0 comments

• A Month of Amazon Kinesis in Production

  by brandur on 5/3/2015, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• Command Exit Statuses: An exercise extending the shell's API

  by brandur on 9/28/2014, 3:04 PM with 0 comments

• Elegant APIs with JSON Schema

  by brandur on 5/27/2014, 1:57 PM with 0 comments

• Mozilla and Free Speech

  by brandur on 4/6/2014, 3:11 PM with 1 comments

• Microservices (comments on 200-500 LOC services)

  by brandur on 4/1/2014, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• The Mediator Pattern in Ruby (or Interactors by a different name)

  by brandur on 3/11/2014, 3:40 PM with 0 comments

• Healthy Anti-patterns

  by brandur on 2/6/2014, 3:53 PM with 0 comments

• by brandur on 2/6/2014, 3:46 PM with comments

• Why I avoid SDKs in production

  by brandur on 2/4/2014, 3:14 PM with 43 comments

• Tim Harford: How can we outwit our lazier selves?

  by brandur on 1/10/2014, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• Forward security for journalists

  by brandur on 12/28/2013, 1:35 AM with 0 comments

• The Recline and Fall of Western Civilization (Airlines)

  by brandur on 12/2/2013, 1:22 AM with 0 comments

• Designing scope for Heroku OAuth, and a brief tour of other implementations

  by brandur on 7/25/2013, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• Ease development of SOA components with Rack service stubs

  by brandur on 6/4/2013, 4:10 PM with 0 comments

• Request IDs — a simple analysis technique for service-oriented architecture

  by brandur on 6/2/2013, 6:13 PM with 0 comments