About
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.
Articles
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, 2023Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It
The traditional soft deletion pattern using
deleted_atcolumns leaks into code, curbs the usefulness of foreign keys, and makes data removal difficult. Luckily, there’s an alternative. July 19, 2022Postgres: Boundless `text` and Back Again
The
texttype in Postgres, why it’s awesome, and why you might want to usevarcharanyway. Also, a story about trying to get string parameters bounded at Stripe. September 10, 2021
Older articles available here.
Fragments
Why to prefer `t.Cleanup` to `defer` in tests with subtests using `t.Parallel`
Go’s
deferandt.Cleanuphave similar semantics, but there’s a good reason to prefer the use oft.Cleanupspecifically in the presence of parallel subtests. September 5, 2023
Older fragments available here.
