Cetra's Thoughts

Implementing a Job queue with Tokio-Serde
An async background job queue written with tokio-serde
rust async 2020-05-13
In the last blog of this series, I implemented job queue with tmq. I noted back then that tmq is great if you need to interact with other languages, but may be a little overkill if you are just using rust. I wondered what it'd take to build the job queu…
Lorikeet 0.11.0 - Upgrading to async
Upgrading lorikeet to async rust
rust lorikeet 2020-04-21
I have just spent some time doing an initial async version of lorikeet now that the async/await syntax is stable and the ecosystem has caught up. The major blocker was reqwest, as this is used extensively in the http test. This async version is available…
Implementing a Job queue with Tokio, PostgreSQL & ZeroMQ
An async background job queue written in rust
rust tmq 2020-04-09
One of the challenges I have had with on premise solutions is the lack of reliable environments and constrained resources. Not only are you limited in your ability to control things, you need to ensure that things continue on in the case of failure. I w…
Handling Breaking API Changes
Dealing with Breaking API
rust semver 2020-02-03
While upgrading dependencies (basically deleting Cargo.lock) in a big rust project I hit an issue. A new commit in serde_json caused has upstream failure in another library, jmespath, and possibly more crates. Because these structs and enums visibility h…
Lessons learnt updating a library to std::future
Updating a multipart-async library to use futures
rust mpart-async 2020-01-22
With the new std::future way of doing things and tokio slowly reaching maturation, it's time to look at updating the libraries out there that are using the old ways. For one of my libraries, tmq, a Tokio ZeroMQ library, there is some awesome work already…
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