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Single Flight Actors

Building a single flight mechanism with Gleam actors

Making Parsers Go Brr

Techniques used to optimise oxc, the JavaScript compiler written in Rust

Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres — PlanetScale

TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres

• Performance
• Databases
• Database Internals
• Postgres
• Search

The lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query — PlanetScale

Follow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back.

• Performance
• Distributed Systems
• Databases
• Database Internals
• Postgres

A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But...

• Systems Programming
• Programming Languages
• Rust
• Python

How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache

Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory...

• Performance
• Systems Programming
• Networks
• Rust

Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing

• Testing
• Distributed Systems
• Storage
• Database Internals