The Follower Read feature lets any follower replica in a Region serve a read request under the premise of strongly consistent reads. It reduces the load on the Raft leader and improves the read throughput of the TiDB cluster. Read this post to learn more. (more…)

I want to preface this by saying these are my two primary languages. I have a healthy respect for both and plan to focus on both regardless. I know this is a provocative question, and I am a beginner in both languages. (more…)

If you’re a regular reader of Hacks, you probably know about Rust, the ground-breaking, community-driven systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla. I covered Rust on Hacks back in July, to note a major milestone for Mozilla, when we shipped Rust...

I recently wrote about the importance of asynchronous I/O in Rust and the aims of the new futures library. This post deepens the story by explaining the core design of that library. If you’re looking for more on the use of the library, you’ll have to ...

Proptest is a property testing framework (i.e., the QuickCheck family) inspired by the Hypothesis framework for Python. It allows to test that certain properties of your code hold for arbitrary inputs, and if a failure is found, automatically finds the mi... (more…)