# Nicolas Brousse

> Director of Engineering · SRE, Security & Cloud Engineering at Adobe. Personal site: engineering essays, plus a
> record of conference talks and papers. https://nicolas.brousse.info/

## About
- Name: Nicolas Brousse
- Role: Director of Engineering at Adobe
- Profile: https://nicolas.brousse.info/about-me/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbrousse
- https://github.com/orieg
- https://mstdn.social/@orieg
- https://orieg.github.io/
- https://www.shell-tips.com
- https://www.slideshare.net/NicolasBrousse

## Essays
- [Being Creative: Why Every Software Engineer Should Learn How to Draw](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/creativity-and-resourcefulness/): Elevate your software engineering skills by embracing drawing. Delve into the power of creativity, learn how to become more resourceful, and unlock innovative solutions.
- [Embrace Disruption: How Resilience Engineering Makes Your Systems Stronger](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/resilience-engineering/): Discover how resilience engineering, including chaos engineering and FMEA, strengthens systems, turning disruptions into opportunities for growth and adaptability.
- [Agentic Development: Navigating the AI Revolution in Software Development](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/agentic-development/): Exploring the rise of AI-powered development tools and their impact on software engineering, from GitHub Copilot to local LLMs. A deep dive into "vibe coding," agentic development, and how these tools reshape our workflows while examining opportunities and challenges.
- [How To Scale ML Inference to Improve Reliability, Speed, and Cost Efficiency](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/scaling-machine-learning-inference/): A practitioner's survey of the tools and strategies for scaling machine learning inference — covering NVIDIA Triton, TorchServe, ONNX, PyTorch compilation, OpenAI Triton, and GPU orchestration on Kubernetes.

## Archive
- [Cutting worker memory in PHP with Judy arrays](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/php-worker-memory-judy-arrays/) (2026)
- [Top Key Algorithms that Every Site Reliability Engineer Should Learn](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/site-reliability-engineering-algorithms/) (2023)
- [How The Tech Industry Amplifies Social Stigmas with Machine Learning](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/ethic-ai/) (2020)
- [Top 5 Machine Learning and Self-Healing Techniques used by SRE](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/top-5-machine-learning-and-self-healing-techniques-used-by-sre/) (2018)
- [Getting Ready For The Leap Second](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/getting-ready-for-the-leap-second/) (2015)
- [Impact of a Positive Leap Second Introduced In June](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/impact-of-positive-leap-second-introduced-in-june/) (2015)
- [Debug PHP code with PHP 5.6 and phpdbg](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/debug-php-code-with-php-5-dot-6-and-phpdbg/) (2014)
- [Graphing Java JMX Object values with Ganglia, Python, and JPype](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/graphing-java-jmx-object-values-with-ganglia-and-python-using-jpype/) (2010)
- [Flash - How to fix the error Security sandbox violation: BitmapData.draw](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/flash-how-to-fix-the-security-sandbox-violation-bitmapdata-draw/) (2009)
- [JETM -  The easy way to monitor your Spring Application](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/jetm-the-easy-way-to-monitor-your-spring-application/) (2009)
- [MySQL - Impact of multiple column indexes misuse](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/mysql-impact-of-multiple-column-indexes-misuse/) (2008)
- [Cheap SAN and secure backup solution for small-sized platform](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/cheap-secure-backup-solution-for-small-sized-platform/) (2007)
- [[PHP] Zend Platform - Performance results](https://nicolas.brousse.info/blog/php-zend-platform-performance-results/) (2007)

## Talks and papers
- [Talks & Papers](https://nicolas.brousse.info/talks-and-papers/): nineteen talks and papers, 2011-2019, at USENIX LISA, SRECon, Velocity and OpenStack Summit, including an awarded IEEE ISSRE 2018 paper on self-healing techniques for a geo-distributed ad delivery service.

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