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From Zero to Millions — Inside Pigment’s Tech Team, Real-Time and Scaling Challenges

· One min read
Chaimaa El Hassani
Chaimaa El Hassani
Engineering Program Manager
Benjamin Hewins
Benjamin Hewins
Software Engineer

Our R&D team is hard at work tackling the challenges that come with building a modern business planning platform. Engineering Program Manager Chaimaa E. and Tech Lead Benjamin Hewins, recently spoke with Elliot Kipling and Enginears to share their insights on Pigment's engineering team, culture, and the technical problems they're solving each day.

Fuzz-driven slow path detection

· 6 min read
Nicolas Dubien
Nicolas Dubien
Software Engineer

Fuzz testing consists into executing a given piece of code against randomized inputs. It is a known tool when you want to detect bugs in your algorithms, but we rarely talk of it for performance related topics. Let's see how we can turn fuzzers into tools able to help us into detecting slow code paths.

Slashing load times by 10x with better scheduling

· 5 min read
Alexandre Bernard
Alexandre Bernard
Software Engineer

Pigment is a super fast growing company. Each day, new clients present unique challenges, adding to the platform's workload and pushing us to continually enhance its performance. This article explains how we successfully divided the loading time for certain clients by up to 10 times without touching to the execution time.

Pure Terraform modules

· 6 min read
Arthur Busser
Arthur Busser
Site Reliability Engineer

As our infrastructure scales, our Terraform codebase grows. To remain productive, we need to keep our code flexible and extendable. A design pattern we find useful is the pure Terraform module. Let's dive into what it is and how it helps us write maintainable Terraform code.