The post discusses the limitations of Next.js in the context of 'vibe engineering', a term coined by Simon Willison. It highlights challenges such as parallel development, testing, and documentation when using Next.js with coding ...
0Fabian Lindfors
2025-05-22 • open source experiment distributed databases postgresql
The text discusses the idea of turning Postgres into a distributed database, highlighting existing methods such as Citus, CockroachDB, and Neon, and introducing a new experimental open-source extension called pgfdb that uses Found...
0Fabian Lindfors
2024-01-21 • database postgresql reshape
The text discusses the release of a new version of Reshape, a tool for automating zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres. It explains how the tool can now handle complex, multi-table migrations and provides an example of a ma...
Renaming a field in a database is a fundamental schema change, but it is difficult to do safely with most databases. The process is particularly challenging with MongoDB due to its schemaless nature, and even with databases like P...
0Fabian Lindfors
2022-05-19 • database postgresql rails reshape
The text discusses the tool Reshape, which automates zero-downtime schema migrations for Postgres. It explains how to integrate Reshape with Rails, create a model and migration, and use Reshape for schema changes. The tool aims to...
0Fabian Lindfors
2022-01-06 • migration database postgresql cli reshape
Reshape is a new tool for zero-downtime schema and data migrations in Postgres. It is an experimental CLI tool that makes non-destructive changes to the database schema, ensuring that clients that still expect the old schema conti...
0Fabian Lindfors
2021-06-13 • postgresql database views
The text discusses the challenges of schema migrations in databases, particularly in the context of Postgres. It introduces the concept of using views to encapsulate data and maintain backwards compatibility during schema changes,...
0Fabian Lindfors
2019-10-13 • design patterns caching structs go
The text explains the decorator pattern in Go using embedded structs, which is a way of extending functionality with minimal changes to existing code. It provides a simple example of adding caching to an API client using the decor...
0Fabian Lindfors
2018-05-02 • web development database go
Apple recently open-sourced FoundationDB, a distributed key-value store featuring ACID transactions, painless scaling, and easy fault tolerance. This post explores how to build a simple object store as a stateless web server which...
The author discusses the value of learning new programming languages, emphasizing the unique approaches and solutions each language brings to common problems. They reflect on their own experience and the benefits of gaining expert...