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Reads, jobs, and funding for the week in software infrastructure. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/09/2…

Wrote a new article on full text search and PostgreSQL. Exclusive for Standard subscribers. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/2…

Worth a read: Alexander Zaitsev from @AltinityDB writes about drop-in compute-storage separation for ClickHouse MergeTree tables. Also: @island_io raised a $400M Series F. And @onsemi is hiring an Algorithm Design Engineer (Graduate/Junior Level) in Ljubljana. Links in bio

Worth a read: @theprincessxena and @GarrenSmith from @TigrisData write about moving from FoundationDB to Kafka for their message queue. Also: @raindrop_ai raised a $35M Series A. And @AlphaSenseInc is hiring a Senior Product Security Engineer in the US. Links in bio

Worth a read: @VogelLu from @cedar_db ported Doom to SQL, this time for real. Also: @verdacloud raised a $189M Series B. And @figma is hiring a Software Engineer on the AI Platforms team in SF / NYC. Links in bio

Worth a read: Aleksey Kladov writes about fuzzing versus unit tests. Also, @felderainc raised a $15.4M Series A. And @tenstorrent is hiring a Midcore Design Verification Engineer in Santa Clara. Links in bio

Worth a read: Eric Ridge and Patrick Reynolds from @planetscale write about a new full-text search index for Postgres. Also: @compai raised a $34M Series A. And @grafana is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer on the Loki Query team in Germany. Links in bio

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We take a look at some of the ways PostgreSQL rewrites your queries (or not). Paywall has expired, give it a read. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/09/1…

Worth a read: John Trengrove from @weaviate_io writes about 4-bit Rotational Quantization. Also: @MIND_Securityio raised a $72M Series B. And @OVHcloud is hiring a Systems Engineer in Texas. Links in bio.

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Worth a read: Thomas Veasey, Chris Hegarty, Sergey Sidorov from @elastic share how they prove an agent's performance wins. Also, @exein_io raised a $270M round. And @Spotify is hiring a Director of ML Engineering on the conversation product area. Link in bio.

Worth a read: Nick Shadrin from @nginx writes about a new directive for routing on HTTP request bodies. Also, @typesafeai raised a $40M seed round. And Exasol is hiring a Database Support Engineer in Chennai. Link in bio.