The Consensus

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 15, 2026) PyData Atlanta's data happy hour is tomorrow. TerraFirma raises a $100M Series A. Tinybird writes about their scalable storage system on ClickHouse. And Zilliz is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Redwood City.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 14, 2026) Papers We Love Too meets in San Francisco next week. Serge Zaitsev walks through an implementation of tensors. Prefect acquires Dagster Labs. And MariaDB is hiring a Principal Software Engineer in India.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 13, 2026) DC Systems is tomorrow in Vienna, VA. Thunder Compute writes a guide to understanding NVIDIA GPU architecture. Ollama raises a Series B. And MatX is hiring a developer on Linux kernel drivers in Mountain View.

Package management is tough. When licenses change and forks appear, your package manager might decide another package is what you really want. And sometimes, it might even keep giving you a package you probably wouldn't have wanted.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 10, 2026) ScyllaDB's P99 Conf is coming up in three months. Databento raises a $97M Series B. Ferrous Systems GmbH debugs cycles in rustc's compiler query system. And Traversal is hiring a developer on the cloud infrastructure team in New York.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 9, 2026) Software You Can Love (Vancouver) is coming up in October. Venus Aerospace raises a $91M Series B. SurrealDB writes an introduction to streaming graph pattern matching. PhysicsX is hiring a Senior Applied Engineer in Singapore.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 8, 2026) Software Should Work is happening next week in Columbia, Missouri. Oratomic raised a $300M Series A. Buf announces a pure-Python implementation of Protobuf. And Red Hat is hiring a Cloud Architect in Mexico City.

Software infrastructure at a glance (July 7, 2026) Papers We Love Too coming up in San Francisco in two weeks. PgDog built yet another Postgres connection pooler. Fluidstack raised $730M and is hiring a number of roles. And Docker is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager.

The Consensus Weekly went out yesterday (July 4, 2026). Internships, job openings, funding and interesting articles in software infrastructure. Our sponsor Railway is hiring a Senior Infra Engineer on the storage team.

I wrote an article on OxCaml's zero_alloc feature for annotating a function that must not allocate. It 1) helps you statically find allocations and 2) prevent future ones. To my knowledge, only Swift and Clang have something similar. Paywall has expired, give it a read!