Rust for High-Performance Systems: The Noria Database
Jon Gjengset · Lecture · 53 min · 2019 · YouTube title: Rust at speed — building a fast concurrent database
Why it's here
HN points to it as a detailed, captivating talk by the Noria author, including a good explanation of deduplicating data between maps using unsafe.
What it covers
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.