TigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef

Our final talk from Systems Distributed '23: systemsdistributed.com.
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[@Metruzanca]

Tigerbeetle just knows what good music for their talks is.

[@nexovec]

Turns out I've been using tigerstyle for the past 5 years and didn't even know. It's always good to see something put in writing that you've long subconsciously practiced, because then you can focus on it and audit it. This is helpful.

[@cal3461]

I love how much Joran love to present this talk. - one of my favourite technical talks

[@JannisAdmek]

One of the best tech talks I've seen in a while!

[@noahryan8672]

Great talk. I found it interesting how a good part of this thinking is similar to what embedded systems programming is like at NASA- the emphasis on static memory, limits, assertions, design, thinking about the full system, etc.

[@tenthlegionstudios1343]

Amazing talk and presentation!!

[@WolfoxBR]

That was truly fantastic in every possible way. I wish I could have been there in person. Well, maybe next time. Thank you, Joran!

[@jorandirkgreef]

Thanks Roberto! Next time for sure! 🙌

[@diegobellani]

Wow I think this is one of the best demos ever ahahah! The talk was great too. I think that assertion are an essential tool in a developer toolbox. You guys are amazing and I hope to see more projects developed with the rigor that you have.

[@jorandirkgreef]

Thanks Diego!

[@harleyswick5449]

Great talk. I want that shirt!

[@tigerbeetledb]

You know where to find us...

[@nosh3019]

Amazing! Great talk!

[@rolandinnamorato1953]

Getting notes of Rich Hickey. Very cool speaker.

[@jorandirkgreef]

Wow, thanks Roland. Rich Hickey was pretty influential on me when I was younger, honing my chops and doing the experiments that would years later become TigerBeetle.

[@DavidGauerRatfactor]

Amazing talk! Lots of fantastic points here, but I especially love the concept of programming "the negative space" with assertions. What a fantastic way to put it. Also, I want that test environment. 🙂

[@jorandirkgreef]

Thanks Dave, awesome to hear that you enjoyed it, and great to see you here in the thread. 🙂

[@klumpeet]

"State is building a database" Yes!

[@rohanpuri851]

Just watched the talk Joran, this is a classic! You killed it with the demo :)

[@jorandirkgreef]

Great to hear it, Rohan!

[@Kichaka_Ranch]

Amazing content so far! What a way to wrap it up !

[@ryantaylor6470]

what a great talk!

[@marcusasteborg7762]

Great talk!

[@NaveenSiddareddy]

always thought the same we have only 4 things to worry about cpu, disk, memory, & network, abstractions hide these but may be design should always start with these !

[@jorandirkgreef]

Glad to hear it! My way into this was reading “High Performance Browser Networking” a few years ago... optimizing the network requests made by a web application... and then realizing that the disk also benefitted from similar optimizations... and then realizing the same for memory... and CPU. With TigerBeetle, we try to really focus on the memory, to unblock the CPU and let the CPU go fast.

[@sierraoscardelta]

really great stuff team!

[@solagratiasolafide]

Jepsen mentioned

[@chaitanyakumar3809]

43:06 can I find this a decent resolution version of this image somewhere in public domain?

[@tigerbeetledb]

Hey Chaitanya! We've uploaded our original of the image in TigerBeetle's Slack in the #systems-distributed channel.

[@Hector-bj3ls]

I wish there were some examples of what he was talking about. Sometimes it just sounds like vague advice. "Do software good like an artist does"... Okay, but like what? Like when talking about naming things he just said: "Use the right nouns and make the names good and clear". Yes, I agree, probably, but what are some examples? How do I know what you mean by "use the right noun"? I think I do that, but I have no idea what you think that is, nor what Tiger Style says on the subject.

[@highpofly]

bottom line, always use rust

[@pietraderdetective8953]

Bottom line: PoS rust cultist!