Software infrastructure at a glance (July 15, 2026) PyData Atlanta's data happy hour is tomorrow. TerraFirma raises a $100M Series A. @tinybird.co writes about their scalable storage system on ClickHouse. And @zilliz-universe.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Redwood City.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 14, 2026) Papers We Love Too meets in San Francisco next week. Serge Zaitsev walks through an implementation of tensors. Prefect acquires @dagster.io. And @mariadb.bsky.social is hiring a Principal Software Engineer in India.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 13, 2026) DC Systems is tomorrow in Vienna, VA. Thunder Compute writes a guide to understanding NVIDIA GPU architecture. Ollama raises a Series B. And MatX is hiring a developer on Linux kernel drivers in Mountain View.

Package management is tough. When licenses change and forks appear, your package manager might decide another package is what you really want. And sometimes, it might even keep giving you a package you probably wouldn't have wanted. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/11...

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 10, 2026) @scylladb.com's P99 Conf is coming up in three months. Databento raises a $97M Series B. @ferroussystems.bsky.social debugs cycles in rustc's compiler query system. And Traversal is hiring a developer on the cloud infrastructure team in New York.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 9, 2026) Software You Can Love (Vancouver) is coming up in October. Venus Aerospace raises a $91M Series A. @surrealdb.com writes an introduction to streaming graph pattern matching. PhysicsX is hiring a Senior Applied Engineer in Singapore.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 8, 2026) Software Should Work is happening next week in Columbia, Missouri. Oratomic raised a $300M Series A. Buf announces a pure-Python implementation of Protobuf. And Red Hat is hiring a Cloud Architect in Mexico City.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 7, 2026) Papers We Love Too coming up in San Francisco in two weeks. PgDog built yet another Postgres connection pooler. Fluidstack raised $730M and is hiring a number of roles. And Docker is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager.

The monthly newsletter for Standard subscribers to The Consensus went out yesterday. But I need to do a blog post explaining some of these product updates in more depth.

The Consensus Weekly went out yesterday (July 4, 2026). Internships, job openings, funding and interesting articles in software infrastructure.

I wrote an article on OxCaml's zero_alloc feature for annotating a function that must not allocate. It 1) helps you statically find allocations and 2) prevent future ones. To my knowledge, only Swift and Clang have something similar. Paywall has expired, give it a read!

Software infrastructure at a glance (2026/07/01) Laurence Tratt is speaking at London Systems. Dominion Dynamics raises a CAD $139 Series A. @trailofbits.bsky.social shipped post-quantum cryptography for Python. And @backblaze.bsky.social is hiring a Cluster & Systems Capacity Engineer.

Software infrastructure at a glance (2026/06/30) Laurence Tratt is speaking at London Systems. Korean inference hardware company, Rebellions acquires SqueezeBits. @sysdig.com is hiring a Senior Software Engineer In Serbia. @cedardb.com touts their unified analytics and transactional engine.

1000x this. This is the way. When I've done perf quests in Golang, this is pretty much how: I wrote scripts to grep the assembler phase for any occurrences of allocations. It's correct and it's powerful. Something like borrow checkers is actually weaker: nothing stops you from tossing in a clone.

For gVisor we wrote checkescape which is basically that approach written as a vet analyzer. pkg.go.dev/gvisor.dev/g...

TIL clang.llvm.org/docs/Functio...

The Consensus Weekly (June 27, 2027) Internships, new jobs, funding news, and interesting articles across software infrastructure. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/06/27...

In most languages, you hunt allocations down with a profiler and they creep back the moment you touch the hot path. Jane Street's superset of OCaml lets you flip that around: annotate a function with [@zero_alloc] and the compiler refuses to build if anything in its call tree touches the heap.

The software infrastructure world at a glance on June 25, 2026. South Bay Systems meets tomorrow in Sunnyvale. ScaleOps shares ideas on efficient GPU cost optimization in Kubernetes. Runpod raises a $100M Series A. And RedPanda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer. theconsensus.dev

If you're a staff+ developer, you're bored at work and you've got a little experience writing, come write with me! I pay $300/article on topics in software infrastructure. It's not easy, but it's fun, gets you a little exposure, earns you a little bit, and helps others learn.

And because we've got all this data on project mentions we can do our own ranking of databases and programming languages. theconsensus.dev/databases.html theconsensus.dev/languages.html It is a small but growing dataset. Rankings will change as we track more organizations and stabilize somewhat.

The Consensus Weekly went out yesterday with four new internships for you. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/06/20...

Already had a view of which companies are mentioning various major infrastructure projects so easy next step was to rank them (tons of caveats, largest of which is that this is just a view of what we index so far: ~500 companies, ~4500 jobs, ~12,000 articles) theconsensus.dev/project/mysq...

Very cool to be linked to from @infoworld.bsky.social. The summary isn't quite right though in that it wasn't a purely negative change. The article demonstrates cases where both versions of the GC do well. Python developers decided (for now) to prefer the characteristics of the previous GC.

I spoke with Pierre Zemb from French neo-compute company Clever Cloud. They're building data services API-compatible with popular systems like Redis, PostgreSQL, and etcd on top of FoundationDB and Pierre is leading the work. There is no paywall, give it a read. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/18...

New in The Consensus: comments (all paid subscribers can comment) and gift links (Standard tier can gift link). We'll see how this goes!

The Consensus Weekly went out yesterday, our weekly summary of funding, jobs, and news in software infrastructure. Three new internships for you! theconsensus.dev/n/2026/06/13...

"This week in infrastructure" is a new segment just for The Consensus Standard subscribers. Helping you keep up with what's going on. This week covers updates in MariaDB, Multigres, VillageSQL, apple/containers, cqlsh-rs, Elixir, and PgDog. Give it a read! theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/11...

I wrote an article about Python reference counting and GC basics by example to show why the Python moved to a new incremental GC in Python 3.14 but then reverted it in Python 3.14.5. Paywall has expired, give it a read! theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/06...

Standard tier users now get dynamic RSS feeds for filters on funding, jobs, and the new feed page. The feed page (without filtering) is available to all readers, subscribers or not, which is a quality-filtered view of articles from every company, project, and developer we index.

The Consensus tracks around 200 technologies and now ties together job postings and companies to technology. Each technology gets it's own dedicated page. You can filter companies by technology, jobs by technology. Find who's hiring who's talking about C or Postgres or Pulumi.

Two new internships in The Consensus Weekly: at Ramp in New York or San Francisco and at Layup Parts in Huntington Beach. Got internships in software infrastructure you want to share? We'll highlight them for free. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/06/06...

Python 3.14.0 introduced a new incremental garbage collector (GC). But reports of higher memory usage caused the Python team to revert the GC changes in 3.14.5. We investigate how memory management works in Python and workloads that perform best and worst for the incremental GC.

Been working with John on this article the last four months to show you Postgres's new graph query support in SQL/PGQ. He doesn't stop there though; exploring the same features in LadybugDB (recent fork of Kuzu acquired by Apple) and DuckDB. Paywall has expired, give it a read!

The Consensus Standard for May just went out to paid subscribers at the Standard tier. Extended coverage of goings-on in software infrastructure (open source and from vendors). Member link: theconsensus.dev/n/2026/05/st...

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John Nevin wrote a new article comparing graph query support in DuckDB, LadybugDB, and Postgres's not-yet-released SQL/PGQ support. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/29...

Your company can support The Consensus and get in front of a bunch of experienced engineers and managers with a sponsored job posting. And hey, Mesa's hiring! theconsensus.dev/sponsor.html

I wrote an article on epoll and io_uring basics through the lens of a simple HTTP file server written in C. Paywall has expired, give it a read! theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/18...

I chatted with @duswnchl.bsky.social , based in South Korea, who works at the open-source consultancy, and worker-owned cooperative, @igalia.com. We covered her experience over the last 15 years working on WebKit and Chromium. There is no paywall; give it a read! theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/20...

Software infrastructure company of the week: @modal-labs.bsky.social. "AI infrastructure that developers love 💚 Run inference, sandboxes, batch processing, training, and many other things on Modal." Many interesting open positions in New York, San Francisco, and Stockholm.

In a new article, we take a tour of epoll and io_uring through the lens of an HTTP file server, starting off first with a synchronous thread-per-request server as a baseline. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/18...

The Consensus Weekly is out! Weekly drop of interesting internships, jobs, and funding in software infrastructure. First up we've got a number of internships at Cloudflare, Flowith, and Atomic Semi. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/05/16...

Software infrastructure company of the week: @thenile.dev. They're hiring! theconsensus.dev/company/nile...

Kumar Ujjawal gives us a look at the code and behavior of type coercion in SQLite, or the lack thereof, and how it contrasts with other databases like DuckDB. (paywall has expired, give it a read!) theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/06...

Whatever your transactional database is, help me understand your use of it. This survey is run by @theconsensusdev, independent of any database or vendor. Repost or pass along to industry peers for broader representation forms.gle/fqjQsezWsztx...

The Consensus Weekly is out, free to read as always, which features interesting internships, job openings, and funding news in software infrastructure, as well as systems developers looking for work. Up first are all new internships this past week. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/05/09...

My article on re-checking (and automating) Hermitage results for modern MySQL and MariaDB is out of paywall. MariaDB has made great progress toward standard definitions of transaction isolation, though it has some outstanding bug reports from Jepsen and Percona. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/02...

Kumar Ujjawal, Apache DataFusion committer and Turso contributor, takes us behind the scenes to understand affinity and type coercion in SQLite, which differs from many other major databases, in a new article for The Consensus. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/06...

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