David Gomes

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

Disclaimer: this article assumes intermediate knowledge of both TypeScript and React. Concepts you should be familiar with include Higher Order Components [https://reactjs.org/docs/higher-order-components.html] and utility TypeScript types such as

Lately, I've been thinking about how one can decide whether to annotate or let TypeScript infer the types of variables/expressions whenever it can. If you don't know what Type Inference is, refer

We recently ported MemSQL Studio [https://www.memsql.com/manage/]'s 30 thousand lines of JavaScript from using Flow to TypeScript. In this article, I describe why we ported our codebase, how it

Recently, I was struggling with integrating redux-form [https://redux-form.com/] into a TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] project. I hit a couple of bugs in the type definitions for this project, and I

I've been using Flow [https://flow.org/] at work for more than a year and there's a few things that I really wish I had known from the start. Some of these could

Around a year and a half ago, I transitioned from a full time onsite position to a full time remote position (same employer). Many friends and coworkers tried to pick my mind on

Disclaimer: this is a blog post version of the talk I gave at the ReasonML Munich Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Munich-ReasonML-Meetup/events/245697054/]. If you want to watch the talk, it's on

If you haven't heard about Reason, you should probably look into what it is [https://reasonml.github.io/] first. However, if you have a JavaScript background and have just recently heard about Reason,

This past weekend two friends (Pedro Paredes and “Michel” Duarte) and I took part in a hackathon held in our hometown — Coimbra, Portugal. It’s called “Shift APPens” and participants are allowed to

This past weekend I organized a local Ludum Dare meetup in my hometown, Coimbra. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Ludum Dare is a game making competition that is

You might have heard about events such as Web Summit [https://websummit.net/] or TechCrunch Disrupt [http://techcrunch.com/event-type/disrupt/]. In these events, dozens to hundreds of startups sit along in tiny

This summer I was lucky enough to grab an internship at Unbabel [http://unbabel.com], a Y Combinator startup that provides a language translation solution - "AI Powered Human Quality Translation". Because they