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2026

Explaining FoundationDB's Architecture Through Compartmentalizationoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
Why Apache Avro Needs Two Schemasoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
Designing Fakes That Prove Correctnessoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
BugBash 2026, or how the correctness decade has startedoriginal ↗
5 May 2026
Why Fakes Beat Mocks and Testcontainersoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
Diving Into Coverage-Guided Fuzzingoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2026
Building Index-Backed Query Plans in DataFusionoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2026
Simulating Leader Election on top of FoundationDBoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
FoundationDB's Transaction Model for Layer Engineersoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2026
What I Tell Colleagues About Using LLMs for Engineeringoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2026

2025

2025: A Year in Revieworiginal ↗
26 Dec 2025
Specs Are Back, But We're Missing the Toolsoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2025
Designing Rust FDB Workloads That Actually Find Bugsoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2025
Diving into Kubernetes' Watch Cacheoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2025
Diving into FoundationDB's Simulation Frameworkoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2025
From Arc to Box: One Deref Bound to Rule Them Alloriginal ↗
2 Oct 2025
A Practical Guide to Application Metrics: Where to Put Your Instrumentationoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2025
Testing: prevention vs discoveryoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2025
Shipped vs. Operated, or How Many Bash Scripts Does It Take?original ↗
18 Aug 2025
Two Podcast Episodes on Topics Developers Rarely Talk Aboutoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2025
Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Uglyoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2025
Thank You, DataFusion: Queries in Rust, Without the Painoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2025
Bypassing FoundationDB's Transaction Limits with Record Layer Continuationsoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2025
Unlocking Tokio's Hidden Gems: Determinism, Paused Time, and Local Executionoriginal ↗
18 May 2025
What if we embraced simulation-driven development?original ↗
18 Apr 2025
So, You Want to Learn More About Deterministic Simulation Testing?original ↗
10 Apr 2025
Key design tip: reverse number scanning in ordered key-value storesoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2025
Debugging FoundationDB's Data Distributororiginal ↗
6 Mar 2025
Ensuring Safety in FoundationDB's Rust Crateoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2025
Back in engineering!original ↗
14 Jan 2025

2024

Redwood’s memory tuning in FoundationDBoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2024
True idempotent transactions with FoundationDB 7.3original ↗
11 Mar 2024
The unseen treasures of Infrastructure Engineering: Academic Papersoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2024

2022

Best resources to learn about data and distributed systemsoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2022

2021

Crafting row keys in FoundationDBoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2021
Notes about ETCDoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2021

2020

10 years of programming and counting 🚀original ↗
29 Sept 2020
Announcing Record-Store, a new (experimental) place for your dataoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2020
Diving into ETCD's linearizable readsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2020
Notes about Raft's paperoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2020
Announcing Kafka-on-Pulsar: bring native Kafka protocol support to Apache Pulsaroriginal ↗
24 Mar 2020
Contributing to Apache HBase: custom data balancingoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2020
Notes about FoundationDBoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2020

2019

Diving into Kafka's Protocoloriginal ↗
8 Dec 2019
Diving into Hbase's MemStoreoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2019
What can be gleaned about GFS successor codenamed Colossus?original ↗
4 Aug 2019
Playing with TTL in HBaseoriginal ↗
27 May 2019
Handling OVH's alerts with Apache Flinkoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2019
What are ACID transactions?original ↗
3 Feb 2019
Hbase Data Modeloriginal ↗
27 Jan 2019

2017

Introducing HelloExoWorld: The quest to discover exoplanets with Warp10 and Tensorfloworiginal ↗
11 Oct 2017
Engage maximum warp speed in time series analysis with WarpScriptoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2017

2016

Event-driven architecture 101original ↗
13 May 2016
Let’s talk about containersoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2016