Singletons are generally not easy to implement safely in any programming language, especially in a multithreaded environment. However Rust’s emphasis on (possibly guaranteed) on memory and concurrency safety sprinkled with some additional language constr... (more…)

Wgpu is a Rust implementation of the WebGPU API spec . WebGPU is a specification published by the GPU for the Web Community Group. It aims to allow web code access to GPU functions in a safe and reliable manner. It does this by mimicking the Vulkan API, ... (more…)

This post was originally drafted in August 2018, but I never got around to finishing it. As such, parts of its framing (e.g. the focus on bindgen) … (more…)

Thanks in part to Linkerd's performance numbers and stellar security audit report, there's been a recent surge of interest in Linkerd2-proxy, the underlying proxy used by Linkerd. I've been working on Linkerd2-proxy for the majority of my time as a Linker... (more…)

I’ve been working recently on Backtalk, a little toy Rust framework for building realtime APIs. Let’s say you’re building a hot new tech startup — Facebook for Cats. You’re going to need a web server to track all these cats. Let’s build one quickly using ... (more…)