Chaitanya Bhandari

Joined @TigerBeetleDB full time this week, where I would be working at the intersection of distributed systems, storage & databases alongside a phenomenal team. Looking forward to growing with the company! :)

Something we value at TigerBeetle is that we are craftspeople. It’s who we are and what we do, but more, it’s the quality (and trust) we sell: “Each line of TigerBeetle code is handcrafted, and then independently reviewed (and understood) by another engineer.”

"TigerBeetle provided the flexibility and foundation that allowed us to build specifically around our operational and scalability requirements. With TigerBeetle, OKTO PAYMENTS can continue to scale without revisiting its foundation." – Kalebi Serafim, CTO, OKTO PAYMENTS

Such a treat taking @TigerBeetleDB on tour to BugBash! 🪲 I discussed going beyond black-box testing of distributed systems – Jepsen-style generative testing, @AntithesisHQ-style deterministic hypervisors – to deeply test safety and liveness using Protocol-Aware DST. Link 👇!

The most valuable asset you can invest in as a software engineer is: - Understanding The more you understand, the deeper your understanding, the greater your impact. This means crafting “one level deeper”, thinking more. It may take years, but understanding will reward you.

Donate (or increase your donation) to the Zig Software Foundation to support quality software: ziglang.org/zsf/

Software is pure “thought stuff”. One person can write code and billions can run it. If anything, our linear time produces exponential value. Therefore, I’ve never personally believed that developer time is expensive, that we have a “typing” problem. Or that English is somehow a better way to express code than a language as explicit as Zig. Granted, there’s tons of (non valuable) bespoke software that LLMs can now create. But the valuable thought stuff? Great systems coders are becoming more valuable than ever. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

Excited to be presenting our work on high performance object storage clients at #P99Conf

Systems Distributed '26 is getting closer and so is the Zig Day Boston scheduled for the day before (completely free, NO conference ticket required). Come practice your systems thinking and make software you can love with us! RSVP: luma.com/eloljzc0

If you're interested in SSD internals and how to use them efficiently, our paper, “How to Write to SSDs,” has been accepted to VLDB and is currently on the Hacker News front page. vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1…

I wrote these words 7 months ago. I am more grateful today for Andrew's leadership of the ZSF, that the foundations of TigerBeetle, our compiler, should not be vibed out beneath us. Standing up to “trillion dollar” big corp… Zig is hard core quality. tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10-2…

A platitude and a promise

"At this point it's a platitude but I'll say it anyway: Building distributed systems—that is systems with multiple interacting nodes—is notoriously hard to get right." –@chaitybhandari on protocol-aware deterministic simulation testing, Bug Bash 2026 youtube.com/watch?v=F78Feu…

@AntithesisHQ @TigerBeetleDB Thank you so much for having me, BugBash was such a wonderful conference! :)

@chaitybhandari @TigerBeetleDB It was a great talk!

@TigerBeetleDB @AntithesisHQ youtube.com/watch?v=F78Feu…

Keynotes from Bug Bash 2026 are now live! AI was everywhere, but so were different visions of how we as developers can/should live with it. Worlds driven by formal specs, worlds in which AI is infrastructure, worlds in which AI finally, actually writes good code.

This is what actually impressive engineering looks like.

The OLTP, OLGP, OLAP spectrum: "Postgres is in the middle as a general-purpose system and there are hardcore OLTP systems out there, like TigerBeetle. TigerBeetle can run so many circles around Postgres in transactions it's insane." – Prof. Hannes Mühleisen

April in TigerLand is out! - Switching to star replication, taming P100 latencies - TigerBeetle goes on tour to BugBash '26 - TigerHoops in the Bay area! tigerbeetle.com/newsletters/20…

New blog post, out tomorrow! Building a Rust Client for TigerBeetle, part II...