The Consensus (Paywall)
The Consensus provides research and analysis for experienced developers, as well as funding news at companies with interesting problems in software infrastructure, and highlights job openings at those companies.
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- 86 from 1 Feb 2026 to 27 Oct 2026
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2026 85
- Rust
- Programming Languages
- Open and closed loop benchmarking
- The Consensus Weekly, October 25, 2026
- Open and closed loop benchmarking
- Tractian
- Eka Robotics
- Flapping Airplanes
- Playing in the sandbox
- The Consensus Weekly, October 18, 2026
- Playing in the sandbox
- Has AI tells
- The Consensus Weekly, October 10, 2026
- Interview with Deepthi Sigireddi from Supabase on Vitess and Multigres
- Interview with Deepthi Sigireddi from Supabase on Vitess and Multigres
- Compression and concatenation on the web
- The Consensus Weekly, October 4, 2026
- Compression and concatenation on the web
- Full text search and PostgreSQL
- The Consensus Weekly, September 27, 2026
- Full text search and PostgreSQL
- The Consensus Weekly, September 20, 2026
- Internship and preview job search
- Query plan rewriting in PostgreSQL
- The Consensus Weekly, September 13, 2026
- Query plan rewriting in PostgreSQL
- Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go
- The Consensus Weekly, September 6, 2026
- Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go
- The Consensus Weekly, August 29, 2026
- Another look at SQLite's WAL-Reset bug
- The Consensus Weekly, August 23, 2026
- Another look at SQLite's WAL-Reset bug
- The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6
- The Consensus Weekly, August 16, 2026
- The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6
- Hourly updates to jobs and the feed
- August 8, 2026
- Touring The Consensus, six months in
- Almost consensus: ABD and the edges of quorum replication
- August 1, 2026
- July 25, 2026
- WasmGC in Wasmtime
- July 19, 2026
- Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
- July 11, 2026
- Of forks and clones and package management
- July 4, 2026
- June 27, 2026
- The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal
- June 20, 2026
- Interview with Pierre Zemb from Clever Cloud on FoundationDB
- June 13, 2026
- This week in infrastructure
- June 6, 2026
- Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole
- May 30, 2026
- Graph database-ball! Exploring the Game with the graph capabilities of LadybugDB, DuckDB and PostgreSQL
- May 23, 2026
- Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium
- Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring
- May 16, 2026
- May 9, 2026
- SQLite affinity is stranger than it looks, a peek inside
- May 2, 2026
- Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB
- Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra
- April 18, 2026
- Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects)
- April 11, 2026
- How jobs, events, and funding work on The Consensus
- Who contributed to DataFusion 53
- Taking multi-master MariaDB for a spin, reproducing a Jepsen report
- Every query gets a receipt
- A static site generator and website transferring under 20kB
- Interview with Somtochi Onyekwere from Fly.io on Kubernetes and distributed databases
- Mojo's not (yet) Python
- Seeing types where others don't
- Source-available projects and their AI contribution policies
- Interview with Kosta Tarasov of New York MTA on DataFusion
- We have pgvector at home
- Generating vector embeddings for semantic search locally
- Paths of MySQL, vector search edition
- Companies behind Postgres 18 development
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