Deterministic Simulation Testing on every commit Distributed Systems are notoriously hard to get right. You rely on Kafka. It’s the database you use when other databases are down. We can’t afford to get it wrong. Our first step was writing Astradot in Rust, the safest programming language currently available. It avoids memory corruption and
Designing Astradot's Cloud Platform, Part 2: Terraform In our previous blog post, we delved into our AWS architecture. Today, we will discuss the challenges we encountered while fully adopting Infrastructure-as-Code. In this post, we will outline some of the issues we faced with our Terraform setup, including enhancing developer efficiency, improving runtime performance, ensuring security, and reducing
Designing Astradot's Cloud Platform, Part 1: AWS At Astradot, we understand that building a robust and scalable cloud infrastructure is crucial for us to move forward quickly and efficiently. That's why we recently made the decision to rebuild our AWS setup to be truly 'enterprise' grade. During our journey, we realized that while
Journey to Monorepo and Bazel Around the middle of this year, we noticed the number of repositories in our Github account had reached 3 digits. Just understanding what was deployed to each environment (production vs staging) or who was working on what and in which branch was getting tougher and tougher as the number of
