Cetra's Thoughts

Hello! This is my website where I post blogs and investigations mostly about Rust.

Currently, I am building things for Pydantic. I am primarily working with the rust team for Logfire.

My Projects

Here is a small selection of projects I have been working on. Check out my GitHub profile for more.

DiveDB
Scuba Diving Database with Dive Sites and Dive Photos
DiveDB is a website for cataloguing and recording scuba diving related activities. It currently includes a dive site map, photos & dive log functionality. The backend is written with Actix Web and the frontend with SvelteKit.
Lorikeet
A Parallel Test Runner for DevOps
Lorikeet is a command line tool and a rust library to run tests for smoke testing and integration testing. Lorikeet currently supports bash commands and simple http requests along with system information (ram, cpu)
TMQ
Rust ZeroMQ bindings for Tokio
This crate bridges Tokio and ZeroMQ to allow for ZeroMQ in the async world.

Recent Blogs

A tale of two lengths
Adventures in memory profiling a rust-based cache
rust 2025-05-11
They say there are 2 hard problems in computer science, and I've hit all 3 of them.... This is a blog post about a memory problem we were hitting in production with a service written in rust, and the tools used to resolve it. The Problem Object Storage, …
Creating your own custom derive macro
Harnessing the power of `syn` and `quote` to create custom rust macros
rust divedb 2023-07-23
One of the things I tackled early on with when creating DiveDB was trying to import a lot of metrics from dive logs. At regular intervals, normally every 10 seconds, a dive computer will record metrics about the dive, such as depth, tank pressure, water t…
Synchronizing state with Websockets and JSON Patch
A simple and extendable, almost realtime, state-sharing method for frontend and backend
rust 2023-01-29
At formlogic, we are using rust for a number of components within our tech stack, including: internal and external web applications, coordinating and logging machining workflows, parsing an industrial domain specific language (G-Code), and more. One of th…
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