Lightning talk #7: "Language agnostic simulation testing on a budget" by Stevan A

Lightning talk #8: "Shapeshifter: using LLMs inside a database for schema flexibility" by David Nachman (David Nachman)

Just a couple of days left to submit your lightning talks! hytradboi.com/2025#lightning…

Talk #21: "Database ideas in Convex" by Thomas Ballinger (Thomas Ballinger)

It's starting to look a lot like ~Christmas~ HYTRADBOI! Just one week to go.

Your ever green CI is not a rocket science until you start to fuzz: then bugs give you no rest Come join Have you tried rubbing a database on it? throughout the world online And listen to matklad explaining the simtests! Friday 28 Feb, 10h00 PDT hytradboi.com/2025/

Folks, I’m giving a lightning talk this Friday at Have you tried rubbing a database on it? which is a fun online #database and PL conference. “Zero Copy Data Structures”. Come check out all the talks: hytradboi.com/2025/?utm_sour…

Other kinds of talks. scattered-thoughts.net/writing/other-… Someone start CheckIfItActuallyWorksCon. I'll help.

Thomas Ballinger Talk #22: "Safe and productive performance with user-schedulable languages" by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley (Jonathan Ragan-Kelley)

Talk 23: "PRQL: a modern, pipelined SQL replacement" by Tobias Brandt (Tobias Brandt (@tobiasbrandt.bsky.social))

Tobias Brandt (@tobiasbrandt.bsky.social) Talk 24: "Serverless primitives for the shared log architecture" by Stephen Balogh

Tobias Brandt (@tobiasbrandt.bsky.social) Talk 25: "A quick ramp-up on ramping up quickly" by Iain Ireland (Iain Ireland)

Tobias Brandt (@tobiasbrandt.bsky.social) Iain Ireland Talk 26: "Enough with all the Raft" by Alex Miller (Alex Miller)

Raft is too popular. Consensus is too popular. Are you using the right tool for the job?

HYTRADBOI is tomorrow! Feb 28 0900 PDT. The chat will run for days, so it's worth joining even if you can't make the start. Bring all your friends too! Re-tweet, share on your favorite forum, put flyers under your neighbours doors etc. See you tomorrow! hytradboi.com/2025/#tickets

The final program:

Tobias Brandt (@tobiasbrandt.bsky.social) Iain Ireland Alex Miller Talk 27: "Let's run a million benchmarks" by Yao Yue (Yao Yue 岳峣)

Tobias Brandt (@tobiasbrandt.bsky.social) Iain Ireland Alex Miller Yao Yue 岳峣 Talk 28: "Good thing we're not writing a database" by Peter van Hardenberg (Peter van Hardenberg)

Get a ticket to watch Have you tried rubbing a database on it? tomorrow and discuss questions about wacky stuff in Convex! Or wait, the conference videos go up later—but this is a remote conference that's fun to participate in live, there are some real neat folks in the discussions.

I wrote a post-mortem. Significantly less mortem compared to 2022 though. scattered-thoughts.net/writing/hytrad…