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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 · 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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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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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 19/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 19, 2026) Boston DataFusion Meetup meets September 3. @crunchydata.com shares changes to past advice in light of Postgres 19. lanyon.ai raises a $10.6M round. And @figma.com is hiring an Engineering Manager for the Data Platform in San Francisco.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 18/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 18, 2026) Apache Iceberg NYC Meetup meets this Thursday. @dash0.com acquires @polarsignals.com. @depot.dev writes about reimplementing Linux's LVM. And @shorebird.dev is hiring a Software Engineer on the Engine & Runtime team (C++) in the US.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 17/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 17, 2026) Dave Moore at @elastic.co writes about optimizing code search as a service. Cursor.com is acquired by SpaceX.com. And Tensordyne.ai is hiring a Junior Software Engineering on the ML Runtime team in Munich.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 14/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 14, 2026) Parasail.io writes about LLM inference performance. Lovable.dev raises a $400M Series C. And Exasol.com is hiring a Database Support Engineer in Chennai.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 13/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 13, 2026) Boston Apache DataFusion Meetup meets September 3. @percona.bsky.social writes about stored Procedures memory consumption in MySQL. FormEnergy.com raises a $750M Series G. And Forterra.com is hiring a Path Planning Engineer in Clarksburg, MD.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 12/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 12, 2026) NYC Apache Iceberg community meets next Thursday. @datadoghq.com encodes a prefix trie as a JVM constant. ExclaimRobotics.com raises a $5M seed round. And LaceLithography.com is hiring an IT & Security Operations Engineer in Norway.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 11/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 11, 2026) Software You Can Love runs on October 3 in Vancouver. @jonhoo.eu at helsing.ai writes about comment syntax highlighting. AMD.com acquires taalas.com. And @cam.ac.uk is hiring a Senior Research Software Engineer in Cambridge.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 10/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 10, 2026) @scylladb.com hosts P99 Conf on October 21. Fangrui Song writes about estimating branch probabilities in LLVM. Firmus.co raises a $2B round. And Rocket.com is hiring a Staff SRE - Database & Storage in Seattle.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 07/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 7, 2026) Boston Apache DataFusion Meetup meets on September 3. @llamaindex.bsky.social writes about document OCR. Malachyte.com raises a $10M Series A. And Harmonic.fun is hiring a Research Engineer in Palo Alto.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 06/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 6, 2026) Greptime.com writes about reviewing a change to a single Rust function that improved performance 10x. Horizon3.ai raises a $250M Series E. And Arcade.dev is hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer in San Francisco.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 05/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 5, 2026) @elastic.co writes about semantic search in Elasticsearch. @convex.dev raises a $57M Series B. And radixark.ai is hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Accelerator Systems) in Palo Alto.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 04/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 4, 2026) @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social writes about running Kimi and GLM at scale. Olix raises a $312M Series B. And Cornelis Networks is hiring an ASIC Verification Engineer remote in Costa Rica.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 03/08/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (August 3, 2026) London Clojurians hosts London Clojure Dojo on September 8. wandb.ai shares how to fine-tune an LLM (part 3). ThreatLocker.com raises a $190M Series F. And Verda.com is hiring a Software Developer in Helsinki.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 02/08/2026

From Thomas's 1979 majority voting, to ABD's linearizable register, to Cassandra's read repair: we provide a runnable Python tour of quorum replication, and show how ABD does not solve consensus. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/02...

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 31/07/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 31, 2026) NYC Apache Iceberg Community meets on August 20. Dremio writes about querying iceberg metadata tables. Ground Cover raises a $100M Series C. And FAL is hiring a Software Engineer, Distributed Systems in San Francisco.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 29/07/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 29, 2026) Software You Can Love happening this October in Vancouver. vLLM writes about parallel token generation. Enigma raises a $71M seed round. And Atom Computing is hiring a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer in Boulder.

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The Consensus @theconsensus.dev · 27/07/2026

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 27, 2026) South Bay Systems hosts a July coffee chat in Sunnyvale this Thursday. @daniel.haxx.se writes about HTTP message signature support in cURL. Abstract.security raises a $25M Series A. And Meshy.ai is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer in Shanghai.

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