Past Launches - Bruno Scheufler

I've worked on several smaller and larger side projects and startups over the past decade. Here's a comprehensive collection of all the projects I've worked on!

Mar 08, 2024

Why Documentation Matters

Software is still eating the world, and there’s no end in sight....Documentation, CodeTrail

Sep 14, 2023

Enhancing LLM Applications with Real-time Data Sync

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for tasks other than summarizing, translating, or rewriting text: Customer support software can analyze sentiments and route support requests, digital assistants can speed up onboarding with Q\&A over the team’s knowledgebase, and engineers can use LLMs to quickly work on and understand large codebases....LLMs, Gradients & Grit, Systems Architecture, Next.js

Aug 15, 2023

Introducing PromptCanvas, a spatial prompt interface

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a new and promising class of deep learning models used for a variety of tasks, including, but not limited to, text generation, classification, and translation. They are trained on large amounts of data and can be fine-tuned to perform specific tasks. In essence, for a given prompt LLMs will produce a continuation or completion that best fits the context, training data, and alignment. With a recent rise in popularity, LLMs already add value to a variety of applications, both consumer-facing (e.g. chatbots, writing assistants, tutors, and search engines) and internal (e.g. natural language interfaces for databases, code generation, enterprise search, knowledge management, and fraud detection)....LLMs, Gradients & Grit, Systems Architecture, Next.js

Aug 16, 2023

Exploring Production-Ready AI at the Frontier of Research

AI is at an inflection point. The latest advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, and other deep learning techniques are redefining the boundaries of what technology can do, while economies of scale and breathtaking amounts of venture capital funding lead to a democratization of AI resources for companies of any size. At the same time, bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and real-work production software engineering is more challenging than ever. With new computing paradigms, what is the best possible user experience? How can applications benefit from AI capabilities? How can we make AI-enabled software production-ready?...LLMs, Gradients & Grit

Mar 01, 2023

The OS for building products

Every day, someone out there has a new idea worth looking into. Maybe it’s a problem they came across at work, or maybe it’s an issue a friend told them about. Now, you might be thinking more people are facing the same problem and making the solution available to them wouldn’t be much more effort....Anzu

Feb 05, 2023

Improving Local Development with Atlas

If you’ve worked on a product that depends on multiple services and surrounding cloud resources, you’ve probably wondered about the best way to set things up for local development. Most teams default to the good old Docker Compose setup supported by some scripts, and that works until you run into the limits of a static configuration....Systems Architecture, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Nov 20, 2022

Serializing Data between Systems with Anzu Values

This post goes over some of our architecture work for the first iteration of Anzu. We’re currently hard at work building the next big step to get closer to our vision of helping teams ship faster, so make sure to check this blog out for updates regularly. If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series, give them a shot....Systems Architecture, Anzu

Oct 02, 2022

Running untrusted code in short-lived environments for Anzu v1

This post is part of the Behind the Scenes series on building the first iteration of Anzu. While we’re working hard on the upcoming iteration, I felt it would be useful to look back on the achievements and downsides of the first version of our product. If you didn’t get to read my previous post discussing the problem statement we intended to solve, check it out....Anzu, Systems Architecture

Jul 10, 2022

Running Container Workloads on Anzu with Managed Containers

While some projects require complex setups and resources from different cloud providers, sometimes you just want to run a container in the cloud and we hear you!...Anzu, Systems Architecture, Automation

Jun 19, 2022

Introducing Anzu Dev Environments

In last week’s post, I wrote about how Anzu Services help engineering teams bridge the gap between the cloud and their codebase by leveraging code generation and the provider ecosystem to connect resources to services within seconds....Anzu, Automation

Jun 13, 2022

Bridging the Gap between the Cloud and Your Codebase with Anzu Services

At Anzu, our mission is to help teams move faster, happier. We want to help make the work of building and shipping services fade into the background, so you can focus on building instead. One of the big pillars to achieving this mission is to reduce the effort associated with integrating cloud services with your applications....Anzu, Systems Architecture, Automation

May 08, 2022

Making teams move faster, happier.

Building and maintaining software and web services has become increasingly complex in the last few years. Integration work across service and cloud providers, delivering commodity features, and ensuring compliance with standards such as SOC II and ISO 27001 slows teams down with busy work and little leverage....Anzu

Jun 19, 2021

Observing WebSocket infrastructure with Socket Inspector

Real-time features on the web are usually built around WebSockets, bi-directional data channels, which send messages back and forth. While there are a lot of clients for testing network requests, there are limited solutions for observing WebSockets over time....Swift, SwiftUI, Mobile App Development, Release

Oct 31, 2021

Reducing SaaS Complexity

Building software is hard. Typically, engineering teams use dozens of services for building, deploying, monitoring, and analyzing their product, as well as providers for billing, internal tooling, customer service, and so on....SaaS, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Automation

Dec 30, 2020

Introducing Stapel

Programmatic navigation can be quite hard to build in SwiftUI, requiring you to manage a lot of state internally, figuring out how to nest views correctly so push behaviour works as expected, it's not a lot of fun....SwiftUI, Swift, Stapel, Mobile App Development, Release

Jul 31, 2020

Accessing ECS Task Metadata at Runtime

When running containerized services in Elastic Container Service (ECS), it's often important to know which environment you're running in. While environment variables can be useful to store deployment-related information, knowing the current cluster, task definition, and revision, or simply the availability zone, can prove vital when monitoring your running service instances....Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Release

Mar 01, 2020

Real-Time Postgres Change-Streaming With lode

I'm thrilled to announce a new project I've been putting hours into the last couple of days! Building data-driven products often means that you want to be able to react to changes as soon as they come in. This means, that you'll expect ways to hook into the constant flow of changes, consuming and processing them in real-time. Data might flow through many services until it reaches its target. So naturally, we'll put our focus on the final destination, the data store....PostgreSQL, Golang, Release

Mar 17, 2019

Updating your GitHub status with ghstatus

I'm glad to announce the release of yet another command-line tool to make your life a little easier - at least if you're one of the few people that actively use GitHub's status feature: Let's get a round of applause for ghstatus, a tiny tool with the intent to make changing your status as easy and fast as possible!...Hacks, Release

Jan 27, 2019

Introducing aqueduct

After doing some cleanup on my projects list, I found a nearly-forgotten tool that I wrote a few months ago, and with some polishing and overhaul done, I'm happy to present to the world: aqueduct. To put it simply, it's a proxy service for GraphQL applications, utilizing a technology named schema-stitching at its core, to connect multiple GraphQL-powered data sources. Offering a ton of customization options, aqueduct can become to perfect companion if you need to bundle some services behind a single endpoint....GraphQL, Containers, Release

Feb 13, 2019

Empowering CI/CD workflows with compose-deploy

A few days ago, I published my introductory post on a freshly-released tool called compose-deploy, which can be used to deploy your Docker Compose application to a group of deployment targets using nothing more than ssh and built-in Docker (and Docker Compose) features. Since then, I have tried to think of additional situations where you might have to deploy your application that way and benefit from the ease of using this tool, quickly noticing that support for CI-like environments would be hugely beneficial to the purpose of compose-deploy. This is exactly the reason why I'm writing this blog post, to demonstrate how to wire up your CircleCI setup to automatically deploy your application to one or more servers of choice once you push some code to GitHub (or git remote of choice). In general, CI support is relatively trivial, however, I needed to add some minor updates to get to a point where deployments actually work. Let's just jump right into it....Open-Source, Automation, CI/CD, Docker, Containers

Feb 09, 2019

Simplifying Docker deployments with compose-deploy

When developing dockerized applications, you might stumble upon the sheer difficulty and annoyance of simply deploying your Compose file along with built service images. If you're not using a full cloud setup and instead want to deploy to a small number of machines, you're left with doing it manually or going for complete automation. At least that was the case until now - I'm happy to introduce compose-deploy. As the name suggests, it is a simple CLI tool that helps you with defining and running your deployments with ease....Open-Source, Automation, CI/CD, Docker, Containers, Release

May 13, 2021

Sending Contact Form Submissions to Notion

With Notion launching their public API beta a couple of hours ago, I wanted to try out to pipe my newly-added contact form submissions to a Notion database....Notion API, Golang