The Pi at the end of the tunnel

Feb 22, 202110 min read

Last week v0.1.0 of Atmo was tagged, joining the other Suborbital projects in the land of beta. This is a big release, so I want to share some highlights about what's changed. Then to demonstrate what this new version can do, I want to show Atmo work...

Introducing Reactr, the next generation function scheduler

Feb 8, 20214 min read

Today I would like to introduce Reactr, the next generation of Suborbital's core scheduler. Reactr is an all-in-one function scheduler with support for Go and WebAssembly. Reactr is a culmination of almost 2 years of work, so let's start with some qu...

Choosing building blocks to move faster

Jan 30, 202112 min read

I am currently running a developer survey to help build the best developer experience for WebAssembly on the server. Please consider taking it! My open source focus for this year is building Atmo, and there is one aspect of the process that I would ...

Building for a future based on WebAssembly

Jan 19, 202112 min read

My goal with the Suborbital project is contributing to the WebAssembly community in the form of tools, frameworks, and a platform that makes building web services with WebAssembly useful in the real world. I believe that WebAssembly is a technology t...

How to familiarize yourself with a new codebase

Dec 28, 20206 min read

A few weeks ago, a tweet made me take a second and think about something that I'd never consciously considered before; how can you approach an unfamiliar codebase and start to understand it? https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1336407539928477697?s=...

Meshing a modern monolith

Dec 13, 20206 min read

In my last post, I described a model for a new type of web service monolith, the SUFA design pattern. A key part of Simple, Unified, Function-based Applications is the fact that the unit of compute is actually individual functions running on a job sc...