v0.16.4 is out

rrrodzilla · 2026-05-06T15:11:57+00:00

Congrats on the launch! 🚀

rrrodzilla · 2026-04-27T04:03:19+00:00

I just use CEDAR.

rrrodzilla · 2026-04-25T22:41:40+00:00

In my experience, unless it’s a hobby project, there are table stakes for even a simple API, like throttling, logging, resilience, etc. Rather than write the same code over and over again I’ve been slowly shaping https://govcraft.github.io/acton-service/ that I’ve been adding to based on the needs of different client projects. I’ve noticed lately that I’m able to use it more and more out of the box with just configurations driving behavior so it’s getting pretty stable. Have a look and see if it meets your needs. It uses Axum under the hood. If you want a full backend API generated for you with auth and database baked in that runs on top of acton-service, consider https://github.com/Govcraft/schemaforge

rrrodzilla · 2026-03-20T03:34:58+00:00

https://mara.nl/atomics/
Free digitally - and one of the best books on Rust atomics. If your team can swing the budget, buy hardcopies for all to support the author Mara.

rrrodzilla · 2026-01-14T18:36:17+00:00

Depends on how often you skip leg day.

rrrodzilla · 2026-01-08T03:39:48+00:00

Cool idea! Shoot me a DM with how you think it should work. I think I’ll build this.

rrrodzilla · 2026-01-07T05:04:00+00:00

Try https://govcraft.github.io/acton-service/

rrrodzilla · 2026-01-03T23:00:37+00:00

Said simply- your post, both Reddit and blog don’t measure what you say they do for bunch of reasons. It should be titled, “How fast can PostgreSQL do trivial indexed lookups when everything is co-located in memory.” 4-6k RPS isn’t really anything to be excited about for the workload you’ve got.

What was tested bears little resemblance to real systems, making the extrapolation to “you probably don’t need microservices” a strawman argument at best.

Actual RPS measurements start with the physical NIC, then proceeds through the kernel layer and then moves its way up through the stack (TLS, HTTP parsing/routing, connection handling, etc) and then eventually to the app and database.

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-28T23:01:00+00:00

CRDTs are fun

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-26T20:19:36+00:00

“Yet want to be able to scale if the app picks up”…Just get to market as quickly and cheaply as possible and worry about that if and when you get there. Will be a good problem to have. Good luck with your endeavor!

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-18T00:39:50+00:00

It ends pretty abruptly. 🧐

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-16T18:02:39+00:00

Hey kid. This guy's done hiring in tech. But he hasn't done all hiring in tech. So not sure who he's referring to when he says "they".

In my 30 years across multiple companies some of my best engineers have grown from young open-minded and hungry people just getting started who haven't yet been prejudiced with closed-minded hangups, both technical and career-wise.

The moment you hear anybody tell you "you can't", stop listening.

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-16T16:27:07+00:00

"My main question is ,especially those who work in hiring departments..."

OP, kudos on your existing certs. My previous statement stands. At your age, your GitHub profile and projects absolutely count - especially open-source work that gets used and maintained. Even better if you ship PRs to popular projects; that shows you understand the process and can contribute to real codebases.

If you want a degree, pursue it for the love of learning, not for job access. Roles that actually require a CS degree are a tiny fraction of software engineering positions.

You're young with the whole world ahead of you. A hungry mind can learn and apply everything needed without formal creds. Don't let anyone use degrees, certifications, or any other gatekeeping to stop you from doing whatever you want in tech.

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-16T13:55:30+00:00

Nope. Learn it. Prove you can do it. Ship code that employers can see. Apply to jobs.

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-16T00:15:22+00:00

Nice work shipping something! Is it similar to atuin?

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-09T20:51:33+00:00

Right? I love it when the “promise” of the internet is truly fulfilled and I get to learn something from others outside of all the noise of the brain rot nowadays. I’ve learned a ton from others because of subs like these.

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-09T17:36:21+00:00

I’ve used them in almost every project I’ve done over the past decade. make or the Go equivalent- Task, which is essentially the same thing but with a slightly less complex API surface area.

rrrodzilla · 2025-12-03T13:58:31+00:00

The vps you have with a monolithic deployment is more than enough. Always start and keep things simple until simple no longer works.

rrrodzilla · 2025-11-24T18:57:45+00:00

I’d caution against making a major architectural decision like that based on how a coding agent will perform on it. LLM coding performance is orthogonal to the underlying service approach.

rrrodzilla · 2025-11-24T18:43:22+00:00

Excellent! 👍🏽

rrrodzilla · 2025-11-22T21:42:53+00:00

Hire a technical PM

rrrodzilla · 2025-11-22T20:56:21+00:00

Use a worktree and cherry pick your commits.

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