Hello!
My name is Nicolas Moutschen.
I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL.
Latest articles
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Hexagonal architecture, test doubles, and traits
In this second article on testing rust web services, we will dive into setting up a base software architecture that simplifies writing unit tests.
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Testing Rust web services (part 1): What is testing anyway?
In this first article on testing web services written in Rust, we will explore the purposes and type of tests we can employ to make sure our applications work as expected.
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An overly complicated blog
There are lots of great solutions to host a personal blog. In this article, I explain how I chose none of them and rolled my own multi-cloud, serverless solution.
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Safe representation of restricted values
In this article, I explore how we can use Rust's type system to restrict what values can be stored in a type, such only allowing floating point numbers between zero and one.
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Dancing with the compiler: Rust and explicitness
One thing that often surprises newcomers to Rust is how verbose it can be. In this article, I explore how I typically work in tandem with the compiler to make my code more explicit and less error-prone.
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Safe operations with typestate in Rust
A lesser known safety property of Rust is the ability to restrict what operations you can perform on a type given its internal state.