Joined @TigerBeetleDB full time this week, where I would be working at the intersection of distributed systems, storage & databases alongside a phenomenal team. Looking forward to growing with the company! :)

TigerBeetle 0.17.7 is released! - Refactor and fuzz the REPL parser. - Ensure race-free CI release validation. - Replace Hatchling with a zig-only wheel builder for reproducible python client builds. github.com/tigerbeetle/tiger…

Opening Systems Distributed '26: Andrew Kelley's State of the Tagged Union Address! Find out what's cooking in Zig land: recent major advancements, demos of what's close to finishing, and roadmap for the next several years. #systemsdistributed

TigerBeetle 0.17.6 is out! - Perform compaction merge incrementally, reducing P99 and P100 latency by 3x. - Fix resource leak & potential overflow in the .NET, Java, and Go clients. - Improve the ping-pong protocol between the client and cluster. github.com/tigerbeetle/tiger…

"Preferred Qualification: TigerBeetle - if you already know what it is, we want to talk" Senior Backend Engineer opening @UpholdInc gm.careers/jobs/1f6a55cf-ef6…

Straddle.com's system of record used to depend on external sources of truth: bank statements, delayed responses, and inferred state. Now, they own it. An in-house financial system of record that's fast and correct, powered by TigerBeetle. tigerbeetle.com/stories/stra…

How do you survive and scale past a trillion transactions? Our team at @TigerBeetleDB has been thinking about this for a long time given the rate at which realtime transactions are increasing. In the past 10 years, transaction volumes surged 100x–1,000x across cloud, energy, and gaming — and up to 10,000x in real-time payments. But general purpose databases can’t keep up with the surge. It’s why to survive a trillion transactions, you need a specialized database that scales not just horizontally, not just vertically, but diagonally. @jorandirkgreef explains 👇

The full house of speakers for Systems Distributed '26: Andrew Kelley @axboe @gh_spin @jamesacowling @heidiann360 Ram Alagappan @AishwaryaGanlat @zooko Hillel Wayne Margaret Holzmann @DominikTornow @jorandirkgreef Join us! July 27-28 in Boston.

Andrew’s interview with JetBrains on investing in human contributors passes 400,000 views (and not stopping).

TigerBeetle 0.17.5 is out! - Refactor the grid to own all blocks through reference counting. - Better heuristic for commit stalls, improving multi-region performance. - Improve SSD performance by running DISCARD when formatting a block device. github.com/tigerbeetle/tiger…

Andrew is relentlessly building the world’s most powerful systems programming language (and toolchain). He has my full support and trust (and frankly, sheer gratitude for holding firm on quality). Props to @jetbrains for putting together a terrific interview.

Something we value at TigerBeetle is that we are craftspeople. It’s who we are and what we do, but more, it’s the quality (and trust) we sell: “Each line of TigerBeetle code is handcrafted, and then independently reviewed (and understood) by another engineer.”

"TigerBeetle provided the flexibility and foundation that allowed us to build specifically around our operational and scalability requirements. With TigerBeetle, OKTO PAYMENTS can continue to scale without revisiting its foundation." – Kalebi Serafim, CTO, OKTO PAYMENTS

Such a treat taking @TigerBeetleDB on tour to BugBash! 🪲 I discussed going beyond black-box testing of distributed systems – Jepsen-style generative testing, @AntithesisHQ-style deterministic hypervisors – to deeply test safety and liveness using Protocol-Aware DST. Link 👇!

The most valuable asset you can invest in as a software engineer is: - Understanding The more you understand, the deeper your understanding, the greater your impact. This means crafting “one level deeper”, thinking more. It may take years, but understanding will reward you.

Donate (or increase your donation) to the Zig Software Foundation to support quality software: ziglang.org/zsf/

Software is pure “thought stuff”. One person can write code and billions can run it. If anything, our linear time produces exponential value. Therefore, I’ve never personally believed that developer time is expensive, that we have a “typing” problem. Or that English is somehow a better way to express code than a language as explicit as Zig. Granted, there’s tons of (non valuable) bespoke software that LLMs can now create. But the valuable thought stuff? Great systems coders are becoming more valuable than ever. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

Excited to be presenting our work on high performance object storage clients at #P99Conf

Systems Distributed '26 is getting closer and so is the Zig Day Boston scheduled for the day before (completely free, NO conference ticket required). Come practice your systems thinking and make software you can love with us! RSVP: luma.com/eloljzc0

If you're interested in SSD internals and how to use them efficiently, our paper, “How to Write to SSDs,” has been accepted to VLDB and is currently on the Hacker News front page. vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-l…

I wrote these words 7 months ago. I am more grateful today for Andrew's leadership of the ZSF, that the foundations of TigerBeetle, our compiler, should not be vibed out beneath us. Standing up to “trillion dollar” big corp… Zig is hard core quality. tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10…