François Violette

As a knowledge person embedded within a group of staff engineers, I focused on key increments to navigate the road to reviving public tech docs. Here's a public tech docs revamp with a CTO Office lens. docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Building a new data warehouse may seem like a herculean task. Learn how we managed the migration from our legacy Python-based infrastructure to a modern data-stack using Snowflake & dbt, building a new pipeline in only 2 months with more than 200+ tables. engineering.contentsquare.com/2024/our-bi-da…

Astro 4.0 is here! Introducing the Astro Dev Toolbar — your new companion for local development. Inspect, audit, and extend your dev environment in the browser. Plus: ⚡️ 80% faster builds, 🌐 i18n routing, 🪄 View Transition updates and more! astro.build/blog/astro-4/

@astrodotbuild Caching looks very promising!

Astro 3.5 is here with *experimental* built-in internationalization (i18n) routing! Let Astro handle routing, linking, and user language detection in all your multilingual websites. Our biggest minor release since... ever! astro.build/blog/astro-350/

The undo/redo feature we use in every day is often taken for granted, but factor in concurrency at the scale of Enterprise and you're in trouble! In this article, we explain we implemented this digital time machine in Contentsquare's complex web app. engineering.contentsquare.com/2023/history-u…

Delivering real-time updates is a cornerstone of user engagement on digital platforms. In this piece, we take you on a journey from AI-powered notifications to customer-centric updates looking at Contentsquare's notification system architecture. engineering.contentsquare.com/2023/building-…

Introducing: Starlight — everything we know about building docs, wrapped up in an easy-to-use template. 🧩 built-in site search, navigation, i18n, a11y, seo, clean typography, code highlighting, dark mode, "edit in GitHub", MDX, Markdoc AND MORE! 🌟 starlight.astro.build

Discover how we developed an industrialized backfill process enabling data engineering teams to safely maintain data integrity while processing over 600MB of data per second. We share our challenges and actionable tips for your own systems. engineering.contentsquare.com/2023/engineeri…

📢 The AsciiDoc WG hits its first milestone with an initial outline of the spec released! Calling all tech writers to help us sort out open questions and start writing. Let's collaborate to make #AsciiDoc even better! Join us at chat.asciidoc.org gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/asciid…

Many engineers find it hard to comply with or participate in defining writing standards as contributing experience does not fit in their daily workflow. In this blog post, we share solutions to improve the writer loop using Vale, a linter for prose. engineering.contentsquare.com/2023/using-val…

@remoquete The EILA dept from @univ_paris_cite offers two-year master programmes for technical communicators, including a 12-month apprenticeship contract (2 week rotations). Public edu in France can cost slightly less than in other countries. Companies from various industries do enroll.

Designing for real-time becomes less daunting with the right database at hand. In this piece, Vincent Cavaillé-Coll explains how ClickHouse helped us to build idempotent data pipelines with event reconciliation. engineering.contentsquare.com/2022/real-time…

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts", as the saying goes. A relatable feeling when you adopt a Monorepo architecture without a second thought. We share our thought process to scale continuous integration and improve at every turn. engineering.contentsquare.com/2022/scaling-c…

Contentsquare is hiring a Senior Technical Writer to bring its developer and implementation docs to the next level. Join us and lead the way! jobs.lever.co/contentsquare/… #technicalwriting #developerexperience #writethedocs

Contentsquare is hiring for a Developer Advocate position. Lots of challenging topics to cover, purposeful open-source projects, great offices to host events, and most important, great R&D teams distributed around the world. DM me or apply directly: bit.ly/3QxBR1Y

@remoquete How wide is this one? Switched to a 34" and not coming back to dual monitor setup anytime soon. You'll be surprised how quickly you get used to it :-) Also happy with this Logitech non clicky keyboard in the long run.

Astro 1.0 is out now! Astro is the web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Performance powered by Astro's next-gen island architecture 🏝️ astro.build

I really appreciate how @Ditaguy frames information architecture as “a record of understanding and agreement” and “also a system for managing the complexity of people working together towards a unified information experience.” #OmniXConf

Asciidoctor is the best thing since sliced Markdown and I'm using it a lot, for example for my book and for my slides. I've just contributed to the project on @opencollect - please consider supporting them too if you're a user! opencollective.com/asciidoctor