Peter Bourgon

Principal Engineer

Peter Bourgon is a Principal Engineer at Fastly, with a focus on coördination-free distributed systems. He's the author of several open-source projects, including Go kit, a toolkit for microservices in Go; Roshi, a CRDT-based stream indexing system; and OK Log, a log distribution and management platform.

State at the edge

Peter Bourgon

With the introduction of Compute, Fastly provides a richer model for the CPU. WebAssembly, powered and secured by the Lucet compiler and runtime, unlocks essentially arbitrary code execution within each request lifecycle. This raises the immediate question: what would a richer model for memory, or state, look like?

July 13, 2020

Engineering

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