Cetra's Thoughts

MCP servers are useful tools that allow AI agents the ability to interact with applications in a prescribed fashion. I wanted to understand how they put together so I could work out where/how they are useful. One of the things I found when first investig…

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, …

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…

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…

When building in a strongly-typed language such as rust it's a shame to have to throw this strictness away, especially when dealing with the wild west of frontend stacks. The bigger the project is, the more you want to keep things cohesive. This cohesion …