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Rust at speed — building a fast concurrent database

Jon Gjengset · lecture · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesDatabases & storageSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

A guest lecture Jon Gjengset gave at Two Sigma on using Rust for large, high-performance systems. It covers why Rust suits such projects, the Noria research database, a concurrent data structure used in it, and practical experience.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as a detailed, captivating talk by the Noria author, including a good explanation of deduplicating data between maps using unsafe.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “His talks are very detailed[4] and captivating[3]”

    Detailed and captivating talks by Gjengset

    harikb, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “There’s plenty of room at the Top: computer performance after Moore’s law”

  2. “gave a great talk about the system”

    Author's talk on the Noria system

    Orou, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “Noria: Dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-perf web applications”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: rust, noria, concurrent data structures, databases, jon gjengset

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