Embedding Media: Video, Maps, and Tweets
Quill's media embeds are safe by construction — sandboxed iframes and id-validated helpers, no third-party scripts.
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Raj Patel
https://rajpatel.ioInfrastructure Lead. Spends most days thinking about deploys, queues, and why the graph is spiky.
7 posts by Raj Patel.
Why We Migrated from REST to gRPC (and What Broke)
Service-to-service JSON over HTTP was costing us in latency and schema drift. gRPC fixed two problems and created one.
Our Journey to Zero-Downtime Deploys
Rolling deploys, health checks that actually check health, and the database migration rule that saved us.
The Case for Boring Technology
Every new technology spends innovation tokens. We spend ours deliberately, and keep the rest of the stack delightfully boring.
Designing an Idempotent Job Queue
At-least-once delivery means your jobs will run twice. Design for it instead of hoping it won't happen.
Observability: From Logs to Traces
Logs told us what happened. Traces told us where the time went. The difference was a 3am incident solved in ten minutes.
Edge Caching at Scale with Cache Tags
Caching is easy. Invalidation is the hard part. Cache tags let us purge exactly what changed and nothing more.