Hi, I'm Piotr, also known as @drogus on the internet.
I write technical articles on this blog, and work on open source projects.
Memory Safety Absolutists
When seeing the title of this post, I bet in some people's minds, the first thought was "Rust devs!". This connection is not unfounded. Rust devs tend to be passionate about memory safety. Some of it, I'm sure, may have been caused by a classic language wars attitude: my language…
JAWSM - a JavaScript to WASM compiler
About a year ago I open sourced a distributed load testing tool called Crows. It runs scenarios compiled to WebAssembly, and as much as I like writing Rust, I wanted to allow using a scripting language in Crows. There are some options to do that in WebAssembly, like using Assembl…
Crows, a Rust and WASM based load testing tool
Today I released Crows, a distributed load testing tool written in Rust running scenarios compiled to WebAssembly. If you are new to load testing - it's a type of performance testing that helps you determine how your system behaves under load. Sometimes also the term "stress test…