Richard Crowley

PlanetScale Metal By Richard Crowley 2025-03-11 and 2025-12-15 Exactly one week after I began working at PlanetScale, I pitched the CEO on what he’d soon name PlanetScale Metal.

Syntax highlighting By Richard Crowley 2025-12-05 Last week I posted possibly the longest code block I ever have and, even though the rest of the site is black and white with browser-standard blue and purple links, it looked stupid without syntax highligh…

Monorepo By Richard Crowley 2025-11-30 I like the idea of monorepos.

Everything is lock-in By Richard Crowley 2025-11-17 I see you out there, thinking that by limiting yourself to just EC2 and S3 you’re avoiding vendor lock-in.

The hard way By Richard Crowley 2025-11-16 I am slow to adopt new high-level abstractions, take on dependencies, and generally trade depth of understanding for speed of delivery.

The future I want for AWS By Richard Crowley 2025-06-09 AWS is a juggernaut.

These cobbler’s children have excellent shoes By Richard Crowley 2025-02-06 I’ve worked on an enormous variety of software in my life – web, desktop, firmware, client, server – but I’ve written and rewritten my personal web content management system more…

AWS IAM Identity Center By Richard Crowley 2025-01-02 Substrate was inspired by an ambitious AWS network architectural migration the Melbourne-based Cloud Engineering team at Slack took on circa 2018, which they inexplicably called Project White Castle.

Responsible dissolution By Richard Crowley 2024-12-05 Going out of business (an overly dramatic way to say it — sorrynotsorry) is a lot of work.

Homelab By Richard Crowley 2024-11-18 I bought a bag of Raspberry Pi boards when the Raspberry Pi 5 came out and I’m itching to do something with them.