The Consensus Weekly, October 25, 2026
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Open and closed loop benchmarking
In a closed loop benchmark, mean latency is just the number of clients divided by throughput. Latency is better measured with an open loop benchmark, but there you have to consider request distribution policy, desired throughput, and retries. We take a look at both types of benchmarks running against nginx and PostgreSQL.
ClickHouse Managed Postgres delivers up to 10x faster performance for I/O-heavy workloads on local NVMe, and natively integrates with ClickHouse for real-time analytics.
Databases & distributed systems
Reads
Birth and death of a row in Turso's MVCC from the Turso blog.
Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” from the DuckDB blog.
HPTS 2026 (Day 2 and Day 3) by Murat Demirbas.
Jobs
Engineering Manager - Streaming at Databricks in Bellevue or Washington. 🇺🇸
Senior Software Engineer, Query Execution at MongoDB in Ireland. 🇮🇪
Software Engineer - Database at Motherduck in Amsterdam. 🇳🇱
Interpreters & compilers
Reads
Objects, attributes, maps, oh my! by Max Bernstein.
A New Way to Think About Borrow Checking (In Reverse) by Evan Ovadia.
Introducing tsrs: A port of TypeScript to Rust from the Cloudflare blog.
Jobs
Engineering Manager, Compiler & Runtime at Normal Computing in Mountain View or New York City. 🇺🇸
Sr. Compiler Engineer at Tensordyne in Munich. 🇩🇪
Software Engineer - Compiler & Runtime at Oxford Quantum Circuits in Remote (Reading). 🇬🇧
Operating systems & web browsers
Reads
SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home from the Fly.io blog.
WebKit Features for Safari 27.1 from the WebKit blog.
ZDI-CAN-33367: Patched kernels available in testing from the AlmaLinux blog.
Jobs
Engineering Manager, Browser Run at Cloudflare in Lisbon. 🇵🇹
Senior Linux Kernel Driver Engineer at Fractile in London. 🇬🇧
Operating System Virtualization Engineer at Oxide Computer Company in Remote. 🌐
Funding
Daytona raised a $60M Series B. 🇺🇸
Daytona is a Secure and Elastic Infrastructure for Running AI-Generated Code.
Performance & testing
Reads
Allocating Off-Heap Memory: Typically 6-18x Faster in JDK 28 from the Java blog.
Cutting objgit’s RAM usage from the Tigris Data blog.
We Asked Jepsen to Break Orkes Conductor from the Orkes blog.
Jobs
Engineering Manager - Software Performance - Apple Maps at Apple in Cupertino. 🇺🇸
Senior Performance Engineer at Crusoe in San Francisco. 🇺🇸
Formal Verification Engineer at Arm in Cambridge. 🇬🇧
Machine learning
Reads
Announcing Humming: Fast, Flexible Kernels for Quantized Inference from the vLLM blog.
llm-d 1.0 hardens open-source AI inference for day 2 production operations from the IBM blog.
MPS in PyTorch 2.15 from the Hugging Face blog.
Jobs
Engineering Manager, Inference Infrastructure at Anthropic in San Francisco or New York City or Seattle. 🇺🇸
Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure at Cohere in San Francisco or London or Montreal or New York City or Toronto. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦
Infrastructure Engineer (GPU & Compute) at Lightning AI in London or New York City or San Francisco or Seattle. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Funding
Flapping Airplanes raised a $1B Series A. 🇺🇸
AI lab.
Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E. 🇨🇦
Run anything. Run anywhere.
Misc
Reads
CKKS — Key Switching and Relinearization by Jeremy Kun.
An analysis of PHP2Shell: CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619 Critical PHP Remote Code Execution from the Exaforce blog.
Fiber Weave Skew Mitigation: Spread Glass, NE‑Glass, and Routing Techniques (Part 3) from the Quilter blog.
Jobs
Engineering Director, Application Security at Trail of Bits in Remote. 🌐
Staff RF Embedded Software Engineer at Impulse Space in Redondo Beach. 🇺🇸
Embedded Linux Engineer at ICEYE in Warsaw. 🇵🇱
Funding
Context.dev raised a $9M Seed. 🇺🇸
One API to scrape, enrich, and understand the web.
Blackwall raised a $100M Series C. 🇪🇪
AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company dedicated to safeguarding web ecosystems from automated threats.
Town raised a $108M Series B. 🇺🇸
The unusually helpful AI assistant.
Tractian raised a $130M Series D. 🇺🇸
Physical AI for asset-heavy industries.
Eka Robotics raised a $150M Series A. 🇺🇸
The Era of Superhuman Robotics.
Internships
Here are eleven of the internships added since the last issue.
Compiler Engineering Intern at Intel in Gdansk. 🇵🇱
Software Engineer Intern - Core OS at Apple in Taipei. 🇹🇼
Software Engineering Intern (2027) at Databricks in Bellevue or Washington or Mountain View or San Francisco or Vancouver. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
PhD Intern, Software Engineer - Graphics (2027) at Figma in San Francisco or New York City. 🇺🇸
Research Intern, Frontier Speculative Decoding (Winter 2027) at Together AI in San Francisco. 🇺🇸
Research Intern at Atom Computing in Berkeley. 🇺🇸
Software Engineer Intern - Summer 2027 at Netflix in Los Gatos. 🇺🇸
GPU Software Applications Engineer Intern (3 months) at Arm in Seoul. 🇰🇷
Cyber Security Engineer Intern at Garmin in Olathe. 🇺🇸
Research Intern, ClickHouse Labs at ClickHouse in United States or Germany or Netherlands. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇳🇱
AI Robotics Research Intern - Summer 2027 - Santa Clara, CA at Nissan in Santa Clara. 🇺🇸
You can browse all internships on the site.
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