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As of this month, The Consensus has now passed 1,000 followers on Twitter, 1,000 followers on LinkedIn, and 1,000 newsletter subscribers. A decent first 9 months! Even in the age of AI, and likely supercharged due to it, people still want to understand how software works.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 01/10/2026

Worth a read: Thomas Kowalski and @scottgerring.com from @datadoghq.com write about building an async-aware profiler for Python. Also: flowengineering.com raised a $50M Series B. And @neo4j.com is hiring a Software Engineering on the clustering & distributed systems team in London. Links in bio

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Required Reading in software infrastructure. theconsensus.dev/developers.h...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The semantic search isn't always perfect (it's a cheap model, made cheaper (and slightly worse) with model2vec), but this is just such a cool way to find jobs in compilers, os development, container runtimes, etc. theconsensus.dev/jobs.html

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 30/09/2026

Worth a read: @haskell.org published a new edition of @lexi-lambda.bsky.social's famous explanation of the differences between foldl and foldr in Haskell. Also: Proximal.ai raised a $15M seed round. And MongoDB is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on Benchmarking in Mexico. Links in bio

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 28/09/2026

AI makes it instantaneous to chase every idea, spin up agents for every stray thought, ask the LLM instead of talking to customers, skip marketing in favor of launching the same AI-generated assets as everyone else easier than ever to go fast. hard as always to do it well

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When almost every single vendor post out there is written by AI, it's no longer hard to stand out. Simply stop using AI to write prose.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 29/09/2026

Worth a read: @penberg.org from @tur.so writes about improvements to concurrent write performance in their implementation of SQLite. Also: modulate.ai raised a $25M Series A Extension. And MultiverseComputing.com is hiring an Engineering Manager in Spain. Links in bio.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We tried everything under the sun during Covid (team CoD, team boardgamearena) but not escape rooms. They're good for coworkers, good for family, good for friends. Can't believe they didn't take off. Enchambered is pretty good online co-op escape room. Got any others?

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joe @joewilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

. @bcantrill.bsky.social is on the right track here. I’d argue making absolute claims far outside one’s domain of expertise isn’t called out enough. People do it because it costs them little if they are wrong and makes them feel and look good if they are right bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/f...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New section on the Contribute page: What makes a The Consensus article. And bumped payments to $400 per article. theconsensus.dev/contribute.h...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 27/09/2026

Reads, jobs, and funding for the week in software infrastructure. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/09/27...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wrote a new article on full text search and PostgreSQL. Exclusive for Standard subscribers. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/27...

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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why are database benchmarks always some nicely assembled TPC queries and not just an utter horror unleashed upon the world? Join Order Benchmark is just IMDB. JuniorVoluteerDataEngBench would be so appalling people would say “that’s not a realistic workload/query”… because it’s too realistic.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 25/09/2026

Worth a read: Alexander Zaitsev from @altinity.bsky.social writes about drop-in compute-storage separation for ClickHouse MergeTree tables. Also: island.io raised a $400M Series F. And onsemi.com is hiring an Algorithm Design Engineer (Graduate/Junior Level) in Ljubljana. Links in bio

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My very non-technical girlfriend is always writing with em dashes and uses words like "delve" and I always pause for a second and wonder if she's trolling me before concluding that seems unlikely.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 24/09/2026

Worth a read: @xeiaso.net and @garrensmith.bsky.social from @tigrisdata.com write about moving from FoundationDB to Kafka for their message queue. Also: raindrop.ai raised a $35M Series A. And alpha-sense.com is hiring a Senior Product Security Engineer in the US. Links in bio

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This pileated woodpecker let me get like 10ft away for an interview.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trying something new to help you save time while reading about software infrastructure online theconsensus.dev/feed.html (this is a fairly dumb checker, may be wrong, may not catch everything, merely a hint)

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 23/09/2026

Worth a read: @lukasvogel.bsky.social from @cedardb.com ported Doom to SQL, this time for real. Also: Verda.com raised a $189M Series B. And @figma.com is hiring a Software Engineer on the AI Platforms team in SF / NYC. Links in bio

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 22/09/2026

Worth a read: Aleksey Kladov writes about fuzzing versus unit tests. Also, @feldera.bsky.social raised a $15.4M Series A. And tenstorrent.com is hiring a Midcore Design Verification Engineer in Santa Clara. Links in bio

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Man there's no way to crash your reputation so quickly as an engineering org as publishing obviously AI-written articles.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Made clam chowder with corn, potatoes, and chicken bacon

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Short blog on job search for every visitor theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/09...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Consensus Weekly is just such a cool place to find both jobs, articles, and funding info on all kinds of hardcore software engineering. And we just passed 1,000 email subscribers. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/09/20...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 21/09/2026

Worth a read: Eric Ridge and Patrick Reynolds from @planetscale.com write about a new full-text search index for Postgres. Also: trycomp.ai raised a $34M Series A. And @grafana.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer on the Loki Query team in Germany. Links in bio

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Short blog on job search for every visitor theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/09...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 18/09/2026

We take a look at some of the ways PostgreSQL rewrites your queries (or not). Paywall has expired, give it a read. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/13...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 18/09/2026

Worth a read: John Trengrove from @weaviate.bsky.social writes about 4-bit Rotational Quantization. Also: Mind.io raised a $72M Series B. And @ovhcloudus.bsky.social is hiring a Systems Engineer in Texas. Links in bio.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 17/09/2026

Worth a read: Thomas Veasey, Chris Hegarty, Sergey Sidorov from @elastic.co share how they prove an agent's performance wins. Also, Exein.io raised a $270M round. And Spotify.com is hiring a Director of ML Engineering on the conversation product area. Link in bio.

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 16/09/2026

Madison Systems has our next talk scheduled and the topic is "The Evolution of Deterministic Simulation Testing" Sign up here: luma.com/nka6507v?tk=...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 16/09/2026

Worth a read: Nick Shadrin from nginx.org writes about a new directive for routing on HTTP request bodies. Also, typesafe.ai raised a $40M seed round. And Exasol.com is hiring a Database Support Engineer in Chennai. Link in bio.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You no longer need any account at all to search internships in software infrastructure we've indexed. Go break prod. theconsensus.dev/internships....

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 24/07/2026

Recommendation time! I quit following Egyptian/Lebanese/ME music back in 2010 when we moved back to the states (except Mashrou’ Leila), so my knowledge is stuck at Amr Diab, Nancy Ajram, et al Who should I be listening to?!

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Consensus's feed is a powerhouse of technical writing on software infrastructure. theconsensus.dev/feed.html

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 14/09/2026

Worth a read: Benjamin Devlin and Anish Singhani from Jane Street announce a hardware protocol emulator ASIC competition. Can you design a chip? Also: Fortaegis raised a $50M Series A in Amsterdam. And Gradium AI is hiring an Inference Engineer in Paris. Links in bio.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm looking forward to looking at how Postgres optimizes query plans. But before that I needed a primer on how it rewrites query plans before even getting to statistics. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/13...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 11/09/2026

Have you ever wondered what a data race is? How a race detector works? If there are bugs in your race detector? We take a look. Paywall has expired, give it a read! theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/06...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I needed code indexing of major systems to help me research software. And now Standard subscribers get access to the same dataset. At the moment around 60 databases and programming languages are indexed (searchable, browsable), and the full 400+ project corpus is the goal.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trying to see if we can get slightly better code viewing and code search if we 1) only index the 400-something projects we track and 2) only index a few recent tagged commits.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Have you ever wondered what a data race is? How a race detector works? If there are bugs in your race detector? I wrote an article. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/06...

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Consensus tracks over 120 of the best developer blogs, and that number grows each week. There's now a dedicated feed page for this group. And RSS as well. No subscription needed. theconsensus.dev/feeds/develo...

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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 03/09/2026

great opportunity for new publications to build a strong brand, e.g. @theconsensus.dev

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Really enjoying Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns. Very well written.

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