Pierre Zemb's Blog pierrezemb.fr

BugBash 2026, or how the correctness decade has started

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Why Fakes Beat Mocks and Testcontainers

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Diving Into Coverage-Guided Fuzzing

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Building Index-Backed Query Plans in DataFusion

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Simulating Leader Election on top of FoundationDB

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FoundationDB's Transaction Model for Layer Engineers

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What I Tell Colleagues About Using LLMs for Engineering

pierrezemb.fr·17w·Hacker News

2025: A Year in Review

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Specs Are Back, But We're Missing the Tools

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Designing Rust FDB Workloads That Actually Find Bugs

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Diving into Kubernetes' Watch Cache

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Diving into FoundationDB's Simulation Framework

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From Arc to Box: One Deref Bound to Rule Them All

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A Practical Guide to Application Metrics: Where to Put Your Instrumentation

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Testing: prevention vs discovery

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

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Two Podcast Episodes on Topics Developers Rarely Talk About

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

pierrezemb.fr·45w·Lobsters

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

pierrezemb.fr·49w·Hacker News

Bypassing FoundationDB's Transaction Limits with Record Layer Continuations

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