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Have you tried rubbing a database on it?

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Hard refresh? They've been up for a long time. How long could I possibly have set the cache headers for...
April 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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I'm kind of doubtful that it's the ui that affects behaviour. I suspect the difference is actually that a) a big conference like splash has a significant influence on your career and b) people who speak regularly are often used to writing their talk on the flight to the conference.
March 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Here's an awesome talk by Iain Ireland to get you started!

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A quick ramp-up on ramping up quickly
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February 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Talk 28: "Good thing we're not writing a database" by Peter van Hardenberg (@pvh.ca)
"Never write a database. Even if you want to, even if you think you should. Resist. Never write a database. Unless you have to write a database. But you don't."
February 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Talk 27: "Let's run a million benchmarks" by Yao Yue (@thinkingfish.bsky.social)
February 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The final program:
0900-1000: Compilers Database query compilation: our journey Thomas Neumann & Viktor Leis A YJIT interview Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert A quick ramp-up on ramping up quickly Iain Ireland Can we democratize JIT compilers? Haoran Xu Safe and productive performance with user-schedulable languages Jonathan Ragan-Kelley 1000-1100: Understanding programs How debuggers work Sy Brand Debugging compiler-optimized code: how it works and doesn't Stephen Kell Side-Eye: ask your programs anything Andrei Matei Let’s run a million benchmarks Yao Yue Rocket science of simulation testing! Alex / matklad 1100-1200: Wild ideas Back to modularity Daniel Jackson DB usability: as if Jonathan Edwards Twizzler and far out memory sharing: precise abstractions Daniel Bittman Programming without pointers Andrew Kelley Throwing it all away - how extreme rewriting changed the way I build databases Tyler Neely 1200-1230: Programmers are people A case for feminism in programming language design Felienne Hermans Malloy, mic drop, peace! Michael Toy 1230-1300: Lightning talk buffet Learning about the odd bits of SQL by reading the PostgreSQL docs Chris Zetter Hacking Observable notebooks from within Tom Larkworthy Zero copy data structures Evan Chan Reliable serverless needs distributed transactions Stu Hood Pangeo is a database Alexander Merose Rubbing a database on a language server Philip Zeyliger Language agnostic simulation testing on a budget Stevan A Shapeshifter: using LLMs inside a database for schema flexibility David Nachman Why S3's conditional writes made people excited Miikka Koskinen pghttp: backend-free, lowest latency web apps Damir Simunic 1300-1400: Query languages Pipe syntax in SQL; it's time Jeff Shute PRQL: a modern, pipelined SQL replacement …
February 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Talk 26: "Enough with all the Raft" by Alex Miller (@alexmillerdb.bsky.social)
A table examining different consensus protocols across many categories, showing that Raft is never the best option in any one category.
February 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Talk 25: "A quick ramp-up on ramping up quickly" by Iain Ireland
A diagram of the baseline interpreter. The core is a loop over a switch on opcode. The branch for each opcode is generated by the compiler, and the dispatch logic is duplicated into the end of each branch.
February 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Talk 24: "Serverless primitives for the shared log architecture" by Stephen Balogh (@sbalogh.bsky.social)
Building a KV-store with S2 ● Multi-primary, horizontally scalable, distributed KV-store ● All writes regionally durable ● Linearizable reads from all replicas https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2-kv-demo
February 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Talk 23: "PRQL: a modern, pipelined SQL replacement" by Tobias Brandt (@tobiasbrandt.bsky.social)
A large PRQL query.
February 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Talk #22: "Safe and productive performance with user-schedulable languages" by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
User-schedulable languages decouple what to compute from how to compute it (exposed for programmer control).
February 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Talk #21: "Database ideas in Convex" by Thomas Ballinger
Thomas scribbles furiously on a whiteboard.
February 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Lightning talk #9: "Why S3's conditional writes made people excited" by Miikka Koskinen
February 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM