Crowley — Pessoa

nrposner.com·há 4 meses

Introducing crowley: Modern High-Performance JSON Streaming Queries

A few days ago I read Micah Kepe's jsongrep is faster than {jq, jmespath, jsonpath-rust, jql}. There, he promoted an approach to high-performance JSON querying using DFAs generated by a regex-inspired

rcrowley.org·há 9 meses

Everything is lock-in — Richard Crowley

I see you out there, thinking that by limiting yourself to just EC2 and S3 you’re avoiding vendor lock-in. You imagine the day you tell AWS to jump in a lake and migrate painlessly to GCP. I’ve got n

rcrowley.org·há 9 meses

The hard way — Richard Crowley

I am slow to adopt new high-level abstractions, take on dependencies, and generally trade depth of understanding for speed of delivery. I like doing things hard way. Not all the time, of course — at w

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PlanetScale Metal — Richard Crowley

Exactly one week after I began working at PlanetScale, I pitched the CEO on what he’d soon name PlanetScale Metal. The pitch was simple: What if we ran Vitess the way I ran it at Slack, with fast, loc

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AWS IAM Identity Center — Richard Crowley

Substrate was inspired by an ambitious AWS network architectural migration the Melbourne-based Cloud Engineering team at Slack took on circa 2018, which they inexplicably called Project White Castle.

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Responsible dissolution — Richard Crowley

Going out of business (an overly dramatic way to say it — sorrynotsorry) is a lot of work. On top of the careful work we did to prop open doors for customers who wanted to migrate to still-irrigated p

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Homelab — Richard Crowley

I bought a bag of Raspberry Pi boards when the Raspberry Pi 5 came out and I’m itching to do something with them. In lieu of knowing what something is, let’s PXEboot them. I’ve got a Raspberry Pi Zer

rcrowley.org·há quase 2 anos

We got jobs at PlanetScale — Richard Crowley

tl;dr Travis and I both got jobs at PlanetScale, building a rad cloud MySQL product. Travis and I tried all sorts of things both marketing and product to try to breathe life into the stagnant busines