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Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on

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This is a post about strong static typing, why I feel strongly about the topic, and some of the ways we utilize the Rust type system at Svix.

Spotting and avoiding heap fragmentation in Rust applications

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One of our Rust services started to show an odd memory profile. This is the story of how we investigated the issue.