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05 — Journal

Notes from
the server room.

Occasional writing — on the tools I rely on, the systems I've broken, the small lessons collected from eleven years of shipping.

§ 01All entries

New
Apr 2026

The quiet joy of deleting services.

ArchitectureOpinion
Feb 2026

A decade of Node.js — what I'd tell junior me.

Node.jsCareer
Nov 2025

Voice interfaces, three years later.

VoiceRetrospective
Jun 2024

NeoVim + VSCode: the best of both worlds.

ToolsTutorial
Mar 2024

Thirty microservices, one on-call rotation.

OpsRadio France
Sep 2023

GraphQL is a design tool, not a protocol.

GraphQLOpinion
Mar 2023

The passion of code — a developer's journey.

PodcastInterview

§ 02Drafts & notebooks

— Draft

Elasticsearch at Radio France, a field report.

ElasticsearchWIP
— Draft

Testing strategies that survived contact with production.

TestingWIP
Elsewhere

Talks & conversations.

Podcast · 2023

The Passion of Code

A long-form conversation about the path from Orange's network ops to Radio France's backend leadership — and why I stayed a generalist along the way.

42 minListen
Conference · 2022

Building voice at scale

Lessons from shipping Alexa and Google Assistant skills for one of France's largest broadcasters — what works in the lab vs. what survives real users.

28 min talkWatch
Elimane Sall

Backend engineer in Paris. A decade spent building APIs, services and voice systems for audiences of millions.

Based in
Paris · CET
48.8566° N, 2.3522° E
Currently
Radio France
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v3.0 · last shipped apr '26
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