Pierre Zemb's Blog

Testing: prevention vs discovery

Shipped vs. Operated, or How Many Bash Scripts Does It Take?

Two Podcast Episodes on Topics Developers Rarely Talk About

Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Thank You, DataFusion: Queries in Rust, Without the Pain

Bypassing FoundationDB's Transaction Limits with Record Layer Continuations

Unlocking Tokio's Hidden Gems: Determinism, Paused Time, and Local Execution

What if we embraced simulation-driven development?

So, You Want to Learn More About Deterministic Simulation Testing?

Key design tip: reverse number scanning in ordered key-value stores

Debugging FoundationDB's Data Distributor

Ensuring Safety in FoundationDB's Rust Crate

Back in engineering!

Redwood’s memory tuning in FoundationDB

True idempotent transactions with FoundationDB 7.3

The unseen treasures of Infrastructure Engineering: Academic Papers

Best resources to learn about data and distributed systems

Crafting row keys in FoundationDB

Notes about ETCD

10 years of programming and counting 🚀

Announcing Record-Store, a new (experimental) place for your data

Diving into ETCD's linearizable reads

Notes about Raft's paper

Announcing Kafka-on-Pulsar: bring native Kafka protocol support to Apache Pulsar

Contributing to Apache HBase: custom data balancing

Notes about FoundationDB

Diving into Kafka's Protocol

Diving into Hbase's MemStore

What can be gleaned about GFS successor codenamed Colossus?

Playing with TTL in HBase

Handling OVH's alerts with Apache Flink

What are ACID transactions?

Hbase Data Model

Introducing HelloExoWorld: The quest to discover exoplanets with Warp10 and Tensorflow

Engage maximum warp speed in time series analysis with WarpScript

Event-driven architecture 101

Let’s talk about containers