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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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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 · 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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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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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

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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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 · 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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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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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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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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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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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 10/09/2026

Worth a read: Marcel Birkner from @dash0.com writes about migrating their @clickhouse.com cluster to Graviton 5. antioch.com raised a $32M Series A. And @netflix.com is hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer on the data platform. September 10, 2026

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

Software infrastructure at a glance (September 9, 2026) @clickhouse.com hosts Rows & Columns Summit next Tuesday. Multigres.com writes about testing their connection pooler. Cylake.com raises a $245M Series A. And SUSE.com is hiring a Security Certification Engineer in Italy.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 08/09/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (September 8, 2026) Software You Can Love runs October 3. @mariadb.bsky.social writes about concurrent InnoDB page splits. Mistral.ai raises a €3B Series D. And Velaura.ai is hiring a Design Verification Engineer- CPU in Santa Clara.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 07/09/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (September 7, 2026) @scylladb.com hosts P99 Conf on October 21. @tenstorrent.bsky.social writes about serving LLMs with vLLM.ai. corvex.ai raises a $33M PIPE. And @modular.com.web.brid.gy is hiring a Developer Advocate, Mojo in United States.

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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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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 04/09/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (September 4, 2026) DistrictCon hosts Year 2: DisCo Together on February 6. @pytorch.org 2.14 is released. iPronics.com raises a $125M Series B. And IsarAerospace.com is hiring a C++ Flight Software Engineer in Germany.

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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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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 03/09/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (September 3, 2026) Postgres Summit US 2026 coming up September 30. @pola.rs has a new streaming backend for the Polars GPU engine. Yardstik.com raises a $30M Series B. And Mercury.com is hiring a Staff Data Scientist remotely from Portland.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 02/09/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (September 2, 2026) ClickHouse hosts Rows & Columns Summit on September 22. @runsybil.bsky.social writes about broken Python sandboxing. FelixPago.com raises a $200M round. And Quadric.io is hiring an AI Performance Modeling Engineer remotely from California.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 01/09/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (September 1, 2026) Boston Apache DataFusion Meetup meets this Thursday. Aleksey Kladov writes about Cancelation Terminology. @onewill.ai raises a preseed round. And Nebius.com is hiring a Senior Research Scientist remotely in Europe.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 31/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 31, 2026) Software You Can Love runs on October 3 in Vancouver. @scylladb.com writes about their FFI framework for async Rust and C# interop. StandardMetrics.io raises a $20M Series B. And @backblaze.bsky.social is hiring a Sr. Analytics Engineer.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 28/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 28, 2026) @scylladb.com hosts P99 Conf on October 21. @tur.so writes about Turso's MVCC. ArgaLabs.com raises a $10M seed round. And @mozilla.org is hiring a Senior Staff Performance Engineer, Firefox remotely from Canada.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 27/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 27, 2026) DistrictCon hosts Year 2: DisCo Together on February 6. @trailofbits.bsky.social writes that VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents. transfyr.ai raises a $25M seed round. And Muybridge.com is hiring a Computer Vision Engineer in Oslo.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you've wanted to write for The Consensus but you don't have the time, or it seemed daunting, I'm looking for folks to write short briefs for weekly roundups. Come write with me! theconsensus.dev/contribute.h...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 26/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 26, 2026) Postgres Summit US 2026 on September 30. Maxime Chevalier replaced a Rust enum to make her interpreter 17% faster. @awscloud.bsky.social acquires @duckdblabs.bsky.social. And CoreWeave.com is hiring a Staff Storage Engineer, File & Block in NYC.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 26/08/2026

We have a new (professionally-designed) logo!

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 25/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 25, 2026) @clickhouse.com hosts Rows & Columns Summit in September. HuggingFace.co writes about a compressed, 4-bit model. Neno.co raises a €6.6 seed round. And @elastic.co is hiring for Performance Tuning on ElasticSearch in the US.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 25/08/2026

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 24/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 24, 2026) @emptysqua.re at @mongodb.bsky.social encourages us to stop wasting time on excessive benchmarking. Starcloud.com raises a $250M Series A Extension. And @trailofbits.bsky.social is hiring an Engineering Director, Application Security remotely.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Cited on in the SQLite docs. That's pretty cool.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I found a minimal reproducer for SQLite's WAL-Reset bug (100 lines of C) that triggers data loss and/or data corruption in seconds. The integrity_check Tailscale did would not necessarily alert you to the former. Exclusive for Standard subscribers. Otherwise, upgrade SQLite!

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Trying out a new format of The Consensus Weekly where we focus on a few major categories most important to us. Jobs and funding flow out from categories like Databases & distributed systems, Performance & testing, Machine learning, etc. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/08/23...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 21/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 21, 2026) @planetscale.com writes about poisoned Postgres connection pools. MuonSpace.com raises a $250M Series C. And @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social is hiring a VoidZero Engineer in Singapore / Tokyo / Sydney / Seoul / Lisbon.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 21/08/2026

Atomic batches in 2013, single-partition compare-and-sawp later that year, and now serializable cross-partition transactions with Accord in unreleased Cassandra 6. We explore each in this article, and find a bug. Paywall has expired. Give it a read! theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 20/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 20, 2026) @namespacelabs.com hunts a delayed deadlock that hid for two years in Namespace's tiered Bazel cache. velaura.ai raises a $110M Series A. And @honeycomb.io is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer remote in Ireland.

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