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Worth a read: @duckdb announces DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS.
Also: @EkaRobotics raised a $150M Series A. And @liquidai is hiring ML Scientist on the Japanese Multimodal team in Tokyo.
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Worth a read: Nicholas Husin and Damien Neil write about better HTTP/1 connection reuse on the @golang blog.
Also: @daytonaio raised a $60M Series B. And @TryArcade is hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer in San Francisco.
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Everything's sandbox. (Blacksmith has a sandbox offering in beta.)
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@sequoia is leading our Series C at a $1B valuation.
We started Blacksmith in 2024 to make CI faster and less painful. In January we ran 5 million CI jobs a week. Today it's over 90 million and growing, and we’re still early.
ALT Line chart of weekly CI jobs run on Blacksmith, growing from 5.4M in January to 90.5M in October 2026.
Worth a read: Ming Ying from @paradedb writes about recent improvements for BM25 COUNT performance in their PostgreSQL extension.
Also: @tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E in Toronto. And @sysdig is hiring a Director of Security Engineering in the US.
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If you'd like to understand what's going on with sandbox companies, I wrote an introduction last week.
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We just raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation to build @daytonaio into the Agent Cloud.
@FirstMarkCap led the round, with all key existing investors and angels doubling down.
We're also thrilled to welcome the founders of some generational companies aboard, including @patrickc (Stripe), @tobi (Shopify), @AravSrinivas (Perplexity), @BrendanFoody (Mercor), @oliveur (Datadog), @adamdangelo (Quora) and @ericsyuan (Zoom)
We're a 35-person team. But that's about to change; we're hiring across the board, and we'd love for you to join us.
Worth a read: @joe_hellerstein walks through techniques for eliminating bugs.
Also: @duvoai raised a $32M Series A in Prague. And The Exploration Company is hiring a Software System Engineer in Munich.
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I took my first look into the market and technologies spurring agent sandboxes.
Exclusive for Standard subscribers.
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Worth a read: Orson Peters writes about denial of service attacking hash tables without knowing the hash function.
Also: Opsin raised a $21M Series A in San Jose. And @encord_team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in London.
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Worth a read: David Laban and @LambrosPetrou from @Cloudflare write about how D1 scales to millions of databases.
Also: @modal raised a $750M Series D in NYC. And @CoreWeave is hiring a Senior Manager, Data Center Security Engineering in New Jersey.
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Compression and concatenation on the web
Everybody knows you can concatenate gzip files to form valid gzip files, but do the browsers know? We explore concatenation with gzip, brotli, and zstd. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/10/0…
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Feed search is now open to everyone, no account needed. And one of my favorite little features in feed search is backlink lookups. 🕵️
Keep in mind: the feed is only among companies, developers, and projects we index. Items in the feed must mention a project we track. And the feed is pre-filtered to exclude docs, marketing pages, etc. It's a feed of (ideally) only good quality writing in software infrastructure.
Anyone can search. And paid (Standard) subscribers can turn these filters into RSS feeds or email alerts.
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The Consensus is really a great resource of human-created content for learning about data infra. An oasis in a world of AI slop.
Short blog post on the little part The Consensus plays in promoting (good) human writing.
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.@eatonphil has created a great resource for the community at The Consensus -- check it out for hand-selected, human-authored articles on sw infrastructure ...
Short blog post on the little part The Consensus plays in promoting (good) human writing.
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Short blog post on the little part The Consensus plays in promoting (good) human writing.
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Worth a read: @petrosagg from @materializeinc writes about building a linearizable log on READ COMMITTED isolation.
Also: @voltusinc raised a $225M Series D in SF. And Muybridge is hiring a Computer Vision Engineer in Oslo.
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Worth a read: @gunnarmorling writes about improved performance, and other advancements, for the Parquet library, Hardwood, in 1.1.0.Beta2.
Also: @typesafeai raised a $870M Series A in SF. And @modular is hiring an Engineering Manager on the MAX Kernel team in the US.
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Should people still read and write technical content in this agentic era? Absolutely, and you should too!
Code is always important, but the people behind it are even more important because, to build great products, you need human intuition and perspective.
I think we should always believe in people, their perspectives, and their experience in tech over code.
Thats why I really love the slogan of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF): "Community Over Code".
I've been following Phil Eaton since his time at EDB and really love his work and what Phil is now building with The Consensus.
I think its still really important to share human-created content and developer stories, even in this agentic era.
I think The Consensus is really an oasis in the world of AI-generated slop.
Today, I read the story of Deepthi Sigireddi, Head of Databases at Supabase, and really loved her story of how she came into the world of databases and spent more than 20 years building databases, or more accurately, scaling databases through Vitess at PlanetScale and now Multigres at Supabase.
If you know database companies, these two are among the coolest companies in our space.
Love learning about databases? Follow The Consensus. Its really an amazing resource for database people.
Read her full story here: theconsensus.dev/p/2026/10/0…
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Thank you to our newest site sponsor, @ClickHouseDB, for supporting our work helping developers build a deep understanding of software infrastructure.
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Worth a read: Anil Joshi from @percona writes about MySQL's new calendar-based versioning scheme (e.g. MySQL 26.7).
Also: OllyGarden raised a $4M seed round in Berlin. And @togethercompute is hiring a Large-Scale Training Research Engineer in SF.
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