Julio MerinoinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceBuild farm visualizationsIf you have followed our recent infrastructure posts, you know by now that we are actively migrating Snowflake’s build to Bazel. What we…Oct 20, 2023Oct 20, 2023
Julio MerinoinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceAnalyzing OOMs in IntelliJ with BazelA few months ago, we described how we fixed three different OOM scenarios in our ongoing migration to the Bazel build system here at…Oct 6, 2023Oct 6, 2023
Julio MerinoinSnowflake Builders Blog: Data Engineers, App Developers, AI/ML, & Data ScienceAddressing Bazel OOMsHere at Snowflake, the Developer Productivity organization (DPE for short) is tackling some important problems we face as a company…Mar 16, 2023Mar 16, 2023
Julio MerinoBazel UI locking and file downloadsAbout a month ago, I was benchmarking the impact of a new Bazel feature and I noticed that a test build that should have taken only a few…Sep 16, 2020Sep 16, 2020
Julio MerinoFighting execs via sandboxfs on macOSA few weeks ago, we announced sandboxfs: a FUSE file system to expose an arbitrary view of the host’s file system. We intend to use this…Oct 11, 2017Oct 11, 2017
Julio MerinoThose pesky MakefilesAs a software developer, you have probably disregarded the build system of your project — those pesky Makefiles — as unimportant. You have…Mar 2, 2016Mar 2, 2016
Julio MerinoCompilers in the (BSD) base systemA commonly held axiom in the BSD community is that the C compiler belongs in the base system. “This is how things have been since the…Oct 23, 20153Oct 23, 20153
Julio MerinoAn open letter to online support staffDear online support staff member,Sep 24, 2015Sep 24, 2015
Julio Merino“Your English is pretty good!”, they saidAs I spend September in Seoul and attend an intensive Korean language course, my story with English comes to mind. This is a story I have…Sep 21, 20153Sep 21, 20153
Julio MerinoMy coding workflowHow would you best organize your work environment for maximum productivity if you were tasked to develop a type of application you had…Sep 8, 20154Sep 8, 20154