First OSS System Breakdown! Interviewing Paul Khuong from Backtrace Labs to talk about Verneuil

Hey’ll!

Hope you all have a great start of the year :)

This year I’m looking to experiment with different kinds of content, and the first content series I’m trying out is called the OSS System Breakdown.

As the name suggests, we’re looking to breakdown interesting open source projects on the technical design and implementation side, walk through some difficult problems and design choices that people need to navigate in these projects or features.

Our very first guest is Paul Khuong, who is an engineer at Backtrace Labs and released an open source project called Verneuil, that is a S3-backed async data replication layer for SQLite. (Demo here)

There are interesting tidbits about how to extend the virtual filesystem layer in SQLite, how to design for backoff in replication, and tradeoffs of cost and performance.

Would appreciate any feedback if this is useful content, and thanks again for Paul willing to do this!

Tim