Eric Torreborre

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Software engineer in search of a galaxy brain

Alençon, FranceJoined September 2023

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Software engineer at the intersection of functional programming, product development and open-source

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ETEric Torreborreetorreborre.blogMar 12 · 4 min read

Partial and unfair tour of Gleam

I keep hearing people praising systems built on top of the BEAM virtual machine. Unfortunately programming with dynamically typed languages like Erlang or Elixir is really not my thing for production

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ETEric Torreborreetorreborre.blogNov 11, 2025 · 5 min read

My first Unison Cloud service

I already mentioned on this blog how amazing it feels to program with Unison. Since I started using Unison, I have created several libraries, but I never deployed and used a Unison Cloud service that wasn't just an experiment. Not anymore! Scratching...

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ETEric Torreborreetorreborre.blogNov 4, 2025 · 6 min read

Don't look down! Look at the data instead!

Story time When I was working at Macquarie Bank in Sydney, I would implement new features for the bonds trading back-office. Then, I would sit down with a business analyst, Greg (if I remember correctly) and he would test various cases with me. One t...

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ETEric Torreborreetorreborre.blogJan 28, 2025 · 6 min read

We can do much better

I was really taken aback the other day by this piece of Terraform file: variable "db_username" { description = "Postgres username" type = string } The Terraform motto is “infrastructure as code”, but what I see above is a configuration file mas...

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ETEric Torreborreetorreborre.blogDec 31, 2024 · 14 min read

2024 in review

This year I decided to do a quick professional retrospective. It’s easier to plan the road ahead when you also have an eye on the rear-view mirror! I can group most of my highlights of 2024 in 3 categories: Becoming a technologist Unison The small...

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Partial and unfair tour of Gleam

My first Unison Cloud service

Don't look down! Look at the data instead!

We can do much better

2024 in review

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Eric Torreborre

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Eric Torreborre's blogs

Recently published

Partial and unfair tour of Gleam

My first Unison Cloud service

Don't look down! Look at the data instead!

We can do much better

2024 in review