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Brandur Leach

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High-quality writing on Postgres, distributed systems, and API design.

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  • The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software #Software #Business #Tech

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    May 31, 2026

  • The Second Wave of the API-first Economy

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    Mar 27, 2026

  • Eradicating N+1s: The Two-phase Data Load and Render Pattern in Go

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    May 28, 2024

  • The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres

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    May 6, 2024

  • Web APIs: Enriched DX By Disallowing Unknown Fields

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    May 5, 2024

  • River: a Fast, Robust Job Queue for Go + Postgres

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    Nov 20, 2023

  • On Using Go's `t.Parallel()`

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    Aug 26, 2023

  • Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It

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    Jul 19, 2022

  • Postgres: Boundless `text` and Back Again

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    Sep 10, 2021

  • How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres + Go

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    Sep 8, 2021

  • Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL

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    Feb 16, 2021

  • Feature Casualties of Large Databases

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    Dec 1, 2020

  • Doubling the Sorting Speed of Postgres Network Types with Abbreviated Keys

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    Aug 7, 2019

  • Sequences: A Modest, Contra-garden Travel Project

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    Jun 4, 2019

  • Building a Robust Live Reloader with WebSockets and Go

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    May 28, 2019

  • SortSupport: Sorting in Postgres at Speed

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    Feb 4, 2019

  • How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database

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    Oct 15, 2018

  • A Missing Link in Postgres 11: Fast Column Creation with Defaults

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    Aug 28, 2018

  • Tweeting for 10,000 Years: An Experiment in Autonomous Software

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    Jul 20, 2018

  • Living APIs, and the Case for GraphQL

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    Jun 8, 2018

  • Scaling a High-traffic Rate Limiting Stack with Redis Cluster

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    Apr 26, 2018

  • Touring a Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust

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    Mar 27, 2018