Open Source Contributions

My contributions to open source projects in reverse chronological order.

• 2023 (Rust hyper): Contributed graceful server connection shutdown example to Hyper 1.0
  • This example still exists in master branch
• 2022 (Go quic-go): Fixed bug in Caddy when using HTTP/3 + fastcgi resverse proxy
  • Observed HTTP/3 frontend with fastcgi reverse proxy backend always returned 500
  • After some packet sniffing found the bug was in server protocol field value
  • I fixed this bug in quic-go which fixed above issue in Caddy.
• 2022-2023 (C++ and Kotlin flatbuffers): 2 PRs to avoid always generating a viral/FUD-producing @ExperimentalUnsignedTypes annotation in Kotlin code. Change is in the flatc flatbuffers schema compiler written in C++.
  • First PR: simple change given that in Kotlin 1.5 unsigned types are not experimental, remove generation of annotation
  • Above change was reverted because unsigned arrays are still experimental
  • Second PR: change to detect when unsigned arrays are used and generate annotation only when needed.
  • Second change still exists in flatc main branch
• 2021 (Go quic-go): Made port HTTP3 Alt-Svc header configurable
  • Needed when Layer 4 firewall is redirecting UDP port for HTTP3 servers (e.g. 443 -> 8443)
  • quic-go library is used as go HTTP3 library in Caddy and cloudflared for example
• 2021 (Java Hazelast): Added Nonnull annotations to StreamSerializer
  • A colleague and I were unsure if parameters and return values from read/write methods were nullable. So I proposed above PR to Hazelcast to enforce this at compile-time.
  • Change allows Java spotbugs to use these annotations at compile time to ensure proper null handling.
  • Also alows Kotlin code using Hazelcast to enforce null-safety
• 2018 (Go CoreDNS): Added MINTTL option
  • Can be used to clamp minimum TTL when caching DNS responses similar to cache-min-ttl option in Unbound
  • MINTTL option still exists in CoreDNS
• 2018 (Rust Hyper): Update send_file example
  • Made example using async file operations provided by tokio
• 2017 (Rust Hyper): Fixed infinite loop
  • Infinite loop happened converting from Cow::Owned string or bytes to hyper http body.
• 2016 (Java Apache Camel): Fixed Kafka key and partition field names in Apache Camel Kafka Component
  • Made these fields easier to use as properties on Camel exchange.
• 2014 (C/Java Netty): Fixed issue 2280 in Netty
  • In early days of Netty having an epoll transport written in C and JNI, the epoll client transport was incorrectly firing channelActive events even if connecting to server failed.
  • I fixed this bug in Netty's C and Java code using JNI
  • In modern times much of the JVM REST API world is running on Netty epoll transport (e.g. Spring Boot Webflux, Cassandra, Micronaut, others)
• 2011 (Java Netty): Contributed failImmediatelyOnTooLongFrame option to Netty decoders
  • These options still exist in Netty
  • Options been renamed to better name failFast which is a good move in retrospect :)
• 2011 (C++ boost): Contributed lock-free version of boost::shared_ptr for IBM AIX operating system to improve performance by 5x.
  • boost::shared_ptr is reference-counted, thread-safe smart pointer similar to Arc in Rust.
  • My code still exists in the boost source code.
  • Eventually boost::shared_ptr became std::shared_ptr in c++11.