THE VIDEO SHELF · rust systems programming
Rust at speed — building a fast concurrent database
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 HN readers recommended 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.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jon Gjengset
- Topic
- rust systems programming
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Anecdotal - One of favorite YouTube live-streaming personalities, Jon Gjengset[1] is a Ph.D student at MIT CSAIL. His talks are very detailed[4] and captivating[3] [1] [LINK] Talks [2] [VIDEO] [3] [LINK] Rust Details(my favorites) [4] [LINK]
harikb on Hacker News · 2020-06
In There’s plenty of room at the Top: computer performance after Moore’s lawThe author of Noria, Jon Gjengset, gave a great talk about the system: [VIDEO] The speeds achieved are impressive but you do not get consistency.
Orou on Hacker News · 2021-12
In Noria: Dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-perf web applications
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