Marc-André Giroux

@xuorig.bsky.social

APIs & Distributed Systems @Netflix https://magiroux.com

Bored of Rust vs X posts that compare a lang a team has been working with for years vs what can be explained by unfamiliarity with Rust. Oh no we unwrap() on a map get and it panics! Control for familiarity with the language, and I feel like a lot of stuff starts looking similar.

Serious take about GraphQL performance since that is very often brought up these days: GraphQL's inherent overhead is mostly limited to its parsing/validation step and its execution engine logic. Eliminating or keeping that to a minimum is important and generally easy. In practice, when people say