Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. DuckDB has no external dependencies. DuckDB has…

Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals duckdb.org/library/desi...

Your Container Is Not a Sandbox The microVM ecosystem was battle-tested long before agentic AI created the demand. A landscape survey: every VMM, the shared Rust crate ecosystem, a dozen AI sandbox platforms, and honest trade-offs.

Your Container Is Not a Sandbox emirb.github.io/blog/microvm...

WAL as a Data Distribution Layer

S3 Files and the changing face of S3 Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files

S3 Files and the changing face of S3 www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-f...

Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM. But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s! In this video, I'm introducing my personal research project…

Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbg...

Why Are You Not Claudemaxxing? From mass-dismissing AI coding tools to managing 5 Claude sessions on a walk. A prompt school origin story -- and your first useful AI win.

Why Are You Not Claudemaxxing?

Memory Isn't Learning 27 Mar 2026

Memory Isn't Learning christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/zabriskie...

The Cost of Concurrency Coordination with Jon Gjengset In this talk, Jon Gjengset explores the true cost of concurrency coordination – from Amdahl's law down to CPU cache lines – and what we can do about it. Modern hardware is moving to more cores…

The Cost of Concurrency Coordination www.youtube.com/watch?v=tND-...

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression We strive to create an environment conducive to many different types of research across many different time scales and levels of risk.

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression research.google/blog/turboqu...

TonicDB: Databases without an OS? Meet QuinineHM (Filip Obradovic) CMU Database Group — PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series (Spring 2026) Speakers: Filip Obradovic (https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipbobradovic/) March 23,…

TonicDB: Databases without an OS? youtu.be/YuEPZlXBImg?...

How io_uring Overtook libaio: Performance Across Linux Kernels — and an Unexpected IOMMU Trap blog.ydb.tech/how-io-uring...

Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster We’re introducing Dynamic Workers, which allow you to execute AI-generated code in secure, lightweight isolates. This approach is 100 times faster than traditional containers, enabling millisecond startup...

Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster blog.cloudflare.com/dynamic-work...

Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis Introducing Hegel, our new family of property-based testing libraries.

Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis antithesis.com/blog/2026/he...

How Databases Checkpoint to Disk Without Stopping the World www.gauravsarma.com/posts/2026-0...

RocksDB development finds a CPU bug This is the story of how a RocksDB unit test I added four years ago, a mini-stress test you might call it, revealed a novel hardware bug in a newer CPU. It w...

RocksDB development finds a CPU bug

Inside the JVM: The Engineering Behind Enterprise Performance

Investing in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/d...

A Trillion Transactions What is scale? We often talk about throughput and latency, or adding machines, and yet systems still fail at scale. Scale isn't just performance and distribution, scale is survivability. Because the…

A Trillion Transactions youtu.be/y2_BqkKTbD8?...

When Did That Hotspot Happen? Mostly Java/JVM stuff. Focused on serviceability, observability and performance. All opinions are my own and I am not selling any of them.

When Did That Hotspot Happen?

Introducing dial9: a flight recorder for Tokio | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.

Introducing dial9: a flight recorder for Tokio

Claude Code experiment: Visualizing Hybrid Logical Clocks Yesterday morning I downloaded Claude Code, and wanted to see what this bad boy can do. What better way to learn how this works than coding ...

Claude Code experiment: Visualizing Hybrid Logical Clocks

AprilNEA - Full Stack Engineer Full stack developer, open sourceror, serial entrepreneur.

Anthropic's Hidden Vercel Competitor "Antspace" aprilnea.me/en/blog/reve...

The Little Book of Semaphores – Green Tea Press Green Tea Press

The Little Book of Semaphores

Fitting a Query Engine in Three Cache Lines Why the bytecode that powers your analytical queries is smaller than a tweet, and why that matters more than you think.

Fitting a Query Engine in Three Cache Lines

Closing the verification loop, Part 2: Fully autonomous optimization | Datadog Learn how Datadog achieves fully autonomous, verified code optimization in production using LLM-driven evolution, formal verification, and live traffic validation.

Closing the verification loop, Part 2: Fully autonomous optimization

Closing the verification loop: Observability-driven harnesses for building with agents | Datadog Learn how Datadog verifies AI-generated systems at scale using deterministic testing, formal methods, and observability-driven feedback loops.

Closing the verification loop: Observability-driven harnesses for building with agents

turbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for Search (Simon Eskildsen) CMU Database Group — PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series (Spring 2026) Speakers: Simon Eskildsen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sirupsen) March 09,…

turbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for Search www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqoR...

MD-MVCC: Multi-version Concurrency Control for Schema
Changes in Azure SQL Database

Using TLA+ to Fix a Very Difficult glibc Bug - Malte Skarupke - C++Now 2025 https://www.cppnow.org --- Using TLA+ to Fix a Very Difficult glibc Bug - Malte Skarupke - C++Now 2025 --- The glibc condition variable (meaning std::condition_variable) was subtly broken for…

Using TLA+ to Fix a Very Difficult glibc Bug www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brgf...

GNU and the AI reimplementations antirez.com/news/162