The Consensus Weekly, October 31, 2026

The Consensus WeeklyOct 31, 2026

Hey folks,

The Consensus moves from New York City down to its new home in Durham, North Carolina this weekend.

We're also rolling out a new version of code search that indexes every commit in the last 10 years from projects we track and includes jump-to-definition, jump-to-use, and call tree diagrams on all symbols in major languages on source view pages.

Here's an example starting point, the main function in Apache HTTP Server.

Still working out the kinks. We'll publish a blog post on it when it's a little more polished. But you can also try it out yourself and let us know what you think!

p.s. We're always looking for ad-hoc, paid contributors.

Cheers, Phil

The Consensus

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.

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Databases & distributed systems

Reads

How MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× faster on some in-memory workloads, fixing a regression dating back to 10.5 from the MariaDB blog.

The first search engine with fully vectorized query execution from the Turbopuffer blog.

1M Durable Workflows per Second on Postgres from the DBOS blog.

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Jobs

Director of Engineering, Core Database at Yugabyte in Sunnyvale. 🇺🇸

Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch at Elastic in Remote (Ireland). 🇮🇪

Software Engineer - Core Database (Kernel) at Neo4j in London. 🇬🇧

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Funding

Hex raised a $100M Series D. 🇺🇸
The world’s best AI Analytics platform.

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Interpreters & compilers

Reads

A faster way to compute signed 64-bit floor division by constants by Ben Joffe.

Protobuf in Python and TypeScript is actually good now from the Buf Technologies blog.

Quality Outreach Heads-up - JDK 28: Value Classes from the Java blog.

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Jobs

Senior Compiler Engineer at OLIX in London. 🇬🇧

Compiler Engineer (f/m/d) at Eleqtron in Siegen. 🇩🇪

Triton Compiler Engineer at Intel in Toronto. 🇨🇦

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Operating systems & web browsers

Reads

Kernel eviction notice: What wesp.sys reveals about the Windows Endpoint Security Platform from the Elastic blog.

Workloads Keeping Secrets: Confidential Computing from the VMware blog.

WebKit Features for Safari 27.2 from the WebKit blog.

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Jobs

Linux Enablement - Software Engineering Manager at Canonical in Beijing. 🇨🇳

Linux Kernel Architect at SiFive in Santa Clara. 🇺🇸

Browsers Developer (Chromium focus) at Igalia in Remote. 🌐

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Performance & testing

Reads

Making Eg-walker even faster by Jacky Zhao.

Rotate, Sort, Last Column: The Burrows Wheeler Transform in SPARK from the AdaCore blog.

TLA-Verus: LLM agents prove temporal properties of TLA+ specs by Murat Demirbas.

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Jobs

Engineering Manager, App Performance at Roblox in San Mateo. 🇺🇸

Member of Technical Staff - Formal Methods at Architect Labs in Palo Alto. 🇺🇸

Formal Verification Engineer at Harmonic in Palo Alto or London. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

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Machine learning

Reads

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model, and our remediation with SGLang from the Cloudflare blog.

Serving world models: Request latency and node throughput tradeoffs from the Nebius blog.

Optimizing Streaming Speech Recognition on Arm® Edge Devices with ExecuTorch from the PyTorch blog.

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Jobs

Associate Director/Director, Inference Engineering at Lila Sciences in Cambridge or San Francisco. 🇺🇸

Member of Technical Staff - GPU Performance Engineer at Liquid AI in San Francisco or Boston. 🇺🇸

Inference Engineer at Gradium in Paris. 🇫🇷

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Misc

Reads

Rebuild the planet from the Chainguard blog.

Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident from the Go blog.

Positive alerts in Prometheus by Alex Chan.

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Jobs

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Flight Software at Muon Space in San Jose. 🇺🇸

Senior Security Engineer, Research & Engineering (United Kingdom) at Trail of Bits in Remote (United Kingdom). 🇬🇧

Flight Software Engineer at The Exploration Company in Munich. 🇩🇪

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Funding

Circuit Mind raised a $25M Series A. 🇬🇧
Intelligent software for accelerating the work of electronics engineers, teams and companies.

Infisical raised a $40M Series B. 🇺🇸
Infisical is the security infrastructure platform for developers and agents: manage secrets, identity, and access.

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