Valentin
eywek.bsky.social
Valentin
@eywek.bsky.social
Software engineer at Datadog, working on distributed systems in the Alerting Platform. Self-taught web developer.

I’m new here, I’ll try to share interesting things I’m reading around software engineering, computer science or career growth
Fun fact: be careful when you do mathematical operations on different number types in Go. Sometimes you end up with truncated float, sometimes it panics, sometimes you get the right result 🤷‍♂️
January 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Raft
thesecretlivesofdata.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:26 PM
How RocksDB works - Artem Krylysov
artem.krylysov.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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There have been some good posts on what "wide events" instrumentation is but not as many on how to go about it, what attributes you should add, or how to work with OpenTelemetry

I put everything I've learned in the last few years into one guide jeremymorrell.dev/blog/a-pract...
A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events | Jeremy Morrell
The existing articles on Wide Events define the concept well but leave the implementation details to the reader.
jeremymorrell.dev
October 22, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Lots of career conversations this week, so distilling it down into a post I can refer back to later:
What Is a Senior Engineer, Anyway?
My thoughts on what it means to be a senior engineer.
matt.blwt.io
November 17, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Sharing my vibes-based analysis that tries to bring back the told data twitter feeling. Comment below to be added!
go.bsky.app/QDDHHS6
November 16, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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I made an infra engineer starter pack. Folks posting about databases, stream processing, durable execution, orchestrators, service meshes, and more.

go.bsky.app/SCZe42X
October 25, 2024 at 1:16 AM