About
Hey! I'm Emil Privér. I co-founded Enad and lead engineering there. I write about the stuff I learn and build along the way.
You can find me on X.
Projects
Selected writings
- Jul 24, 2026Building an observability serviceWe're growing fast at Enad. Our systems move terabytes of data every day and handle millions of requests. On one recent day, we sent almost 800 million outbound requests to third-party services.
- Apr 21, 2026I am a craftsmanI’ve been going back and forth on coding with LLMs. I first started using them more seriously this fall when the models improved, but even since then, I’ve alternated between using them and avoiding them. Now, I’m back to using LLMs for…
- Apr 12, 2026I rebuilt and ported my website to Svelte from HugoThis week I spent my free time porting my old Hugo website to Svelte. I'd been wanting to do it for quite a while, mostly because Svelte is my favorite framework. Hugo was really nice if all you wanted was static site generation, but I…
- Apr 12, 2026Announcing Suitecase: a testing library for RustI posted this on X first; this is the same story with a bit more room to breathe.
- Oct 19, 2025We Re-Built Our Integration Service Using Postgres and GoOur integration service connects our platform to external systems. Earlier this year, we reached a scaling limit at 40 integrations and rebuilt it from the ground up.
- Sep 15, 2025Improving My Health Improved My CodeI think something important in life is to find the thing we love to do—a passion that doesn't depend on other people. It should be this one thing we can do for ourselves that drives us forward in life. I'm speaking about that one thing we…
- Sep 6, 2024Implementing V7 UUID in PostgresEveryone likes fast Postgres databases, and so do I. Something developers have been talking about recently is the usage of UUID v7 in Postgres databases because rt is quicker to search on. I wanted to use v7 as IDs for the service I built,…
- Jul 21, 2024Why I Like OcamlAccording to my Linkedin profile, I have been writing code for a company for almost 6 years. During this time, I have worked on PHP and Wordpress projects, built e-commerce websites using NextJS and JavaScript, written small backends in…
- May 21, 2024From Computer to Production With NixA while ago, I wrote "Bye Opam, Hello Nix" where the topic of that post was that I replaced Opam with Nix as it works much better. This post is about taking this a bit further, discussing how I use Nix for local development, testing, and…
- May 13, 2024Bye Opam, Hello NixI've been writing OCaml since November 2023 and I enjoy the language; it's fun to write and has some features I really appreciate. However, you may have noticed I only mentioned the "language" in the first sentence. That's because I have…
