David Gomes

For the last few years, as our team grew, one of the biggest challenges we've had to solve was how to onboard new engineers onto the team. A big part of onboarding new

I recently led a project to build a Vercel Integration for SingleStoreDB Cloud. Throughout the process, I met a few different folks at Vercel, and had a really fun time with actually implementing

I started my software engineering career at MemSQL (now called SingleStoreDB) and our product was 100% self-managed back then. This meant that our customers had to download, install and then maintain the installation

My big fitness goal for 2023 was to do something that a few years ago would be completely unthinkable for me — to run a sub-3 hour marathon. To set some context, I only

I recently wrote a blog post titled “A Simple System for Measuring Flaky Tests in a Large CI/CD Pipeline”. We have implemented this system at work and it has been working wonderfully

A couple of weeks ago, I was in an internal meeting where our CTO (Adam Prout) was giving a talk to our summer interns. The talk was about the current state of database

tl;dr: we’ve created new SQL commands ( SHOW PROFILE UI, EXPLAIN UI and SHOW PLAN UI) that allow developers to more easily visualize their SingleStoreDB query plans. It’s the little things!

The first post on this personal blog dates back to December 2012. It’s been more than a decade! As with many others, I’ve always struggled with how to setup my personal

In the past few weeks, we saw a few key announcements that point to a new trend in the data infrastructure ecosystem: * Databricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML

Disclaimer: this blog post is primarily aimed for startup or "scale-up" employees of Business-to-Business (B2B) software companies (i.e., companies that build software products and then sell those to other companies, most commonly

We've all heard that one cannot improve what they can't measure. And this is obviously true about flaky tests in our CI/CD pipelines. At work (SingleStoreDB), we've been struggling with this for

In the summer of 2015, I interned as a software engineer at a startup based in Portugal called Unbabel. The internship was only two months long, but it was an amazing opportunity which

Product-led growth (PLG) has been gaining momentum in developer tooling in recent years (it was already popular for consumer-facing products before). The idea behind PLG is simple: instead of relying on traditional sales

My job as an Engineering Manager requires me to use Git Blame every single day (this is really not an exaggeration!). In this post, I will go into a few different things: 1.

Table of Contents * What's not discussed here? * The 8 Pillars of Database DX (in no particular order) * #1 Observability * #2 Deployment * #3 Configurability of Tradeoffs * #4 Predictable Pricing * #5 Programming Language SDKs/Drivers/

tl;dr: I will show you how I ran some simple analytics on my Google Calendar history over almost 7 years. I used SingleStoreDB for this, but it should be straightforward to do

A plethora of outstanding literature exists with the goal of helping software engineers make a greater impact and grow in their careers. Just a few examples include: * Staff Engineer by Will Larson * The

Did you know TypeScript has an API that allows you to write scripts that make certain checks on your code? It's very rarely useful for application developers, but it's used by IDE plugins

Before I was actually getting paid to write code, I got extremely accustomed to picking up new frameworks and libraries very quickly. I'd bootstrap a new web application in Rails in one week,

I wrote some code over 2 years ago that couldn't be properly typed with either Flow [https://flow.org/] or TypeScript [https://www.typescriptlang.org/], but with the introduction of Variadic Tuple Types