Hi there! I'm Nicolae Vartolomei.

I'm an engineer, currently busy building something new 🥷. In the past 15 years I've built infra/platform/products at Cloudflare and at a few other startups.
You can find me on Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, or get in touch [email protected].

Notes

ordered by:

How to Organise and Run a Platform Engineering Team for Success ★ 2023/05

Rebalancing data in shared-nothing distributed systems ★ 2022/01

Weighted Deterministic Aperture ★ 2020/08

A model for choosing the number of shards and replicas for optimal efficiency ★ 2020/08

Zipf's law and sharding 2022/06

Debugging programs running inside Docker containers, in production 2021/01

External Sorting 2023/08

Applying Universal Scalability Law to an individual's productivity 2023/04

Fixing ext4 IO distribution on RAID 0 arrays 2023/02

A mnemonic for Little's law 2022/09

On-demand, cost-efficient remote development environments, nowdev 2023/03

Bookshelf 2024/04

Distributed Systems Classics 2022/09

Error handling and control flow (in JavaScript) 2016/01

The critical drunk-shit-talk region 2021/11

Omniverse—An Operating System for thought 2023/04

8 Qualities of a Great Manager by Parasad Setty 2015/10

Cyanide 2019/06

Do the Work 2015/11