cache_warmer - tool to warm-up HTTP caches

2017-12-18 — 2 min read

#rust #nginx #cache #cache_warmer

I’ve written a small tool to warm-up HTTP caches, e.g. services like nginx.

Source code as well as compiled releases are available at Github.

Cross-compile and link a static binary on macOS for Linux with cargo and rust

2017-03-15 — 2 min read

#rust #cargo #musl

One Go feature which I’m using regularly is cross-compiling Go code to other platforms (usually from macOS to linux-amd64).

In Go, this is a built-in feature that “just works”. The following command produces a statically linked ELF binary which can simply be copied and run on a Linux machine:

Writing An Interpreter In Rust

2016-12-09 — 6 min read

#rust #interpreter #monkey

Last month, Thorsten Ball released his first book: Writing An Interpreter In Go. It’s an awesome book that teaches its readers how to write their own programming language, step by step. It comes bundled with the complete Go code, including tests.

While reading it, I was looking for a challenge. I’m a huge fan of Rust, a safe systems programming language by Mozilla, so I thought it might be a good exercise to port the Go implementation of the programming language “Monkey” to Rust.

Here’s an example of what Monkey code looks like (you can find more examples here):