About

HYTRADBOI was an online conference about databases, programming languages, and everything in between. A place for ideas to cross-fertilize between the two disciplines.

Program

0900-1000: Compilers

• Database query compilation: our journey
  Thomas Neumann & Viktor Leis
• A YJIT interview
  Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
• A quick ramp-up on ramping up quickly
  Iain Ireland
• Can we democratize JIT compilers?
  Haoran Xu
• Safe and productive performance with user-schedulable languages
  Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

1000-1100: Understanding programs

• How debuggers work
  Sy Brand
• Debugging compiler-optimized code: how it works and doesn't
  Stephen Kell
• Side-Eye: ask your programs anything
  Andrei Matei
• Let's run a million benchmarks
  Yao Yue
• Rocket science of simulation testing!
  Alex / matklad

1100-1200: Wild ideas

• Back to modularity
  Daniel Jackson
• DB usability: as if
  Jonathan Edwards
• Twizzler and far out memory sharing: precise abstractions
  Daniel Bittman
• Programming without pointers
  Andrew Kelley
• Throwing it all away - how extreme rewriting changed the way I build databases
  Tyler Neely

1200-1230: Programmers are people

• A case for feminism in programming language design
  Felienne Hermans
• Malloy, mic drop, peace!
  Michael Toy

1230-1300: Lightning talk buffet

• Learning about the odd bits of SQL by reading the PostgreSQL docs
  Chris Zetter
• Hacking Observable notebooks from within
  Tom Larkworthy
• Zero copy data structures
  Evan Chan
• Reliable serverless needs distributed transactions
  Stu Hood
• Pangeo is a database
  Alexander Merose
• Rubbing a database on a language server
  Philip Zeyliger
• Language agnostic simulation testing on a budget
  Stevan A
• Shapeshifter: using LLMs inside a database for schema flexibility
  David Nachman
• Why S3's conditional writes made people excited
  Miikka Koskinen
• pghttp: backend-free, lowest latency web apps
  Damir Simunic

1300-1400: Query languages

• Pipe syntax in SQL; it's time
  Jeff Shute
• PRQL: a modern, pipelined SQL replacement
  Tobias Brandt
• AquaLang - a streaming dataflow programming language
  Klas Segeljakt
• A polymorphic data model for SQL using algebraic types
  Steve McCanne

1400-1430: Databases

• Use of time in distributed databases - don't fall behind the times
  Murat Demirbas
• Enough with all the Raft
  Alex Miller
• Database ideas in Convex
  Thomas Ballinger
• Serverless primitives for the shared log architecture
  Stephen Balogh
• Good thing we're not writing a database
  Peter van Hardenberg

1430-1500: Wasm

• Thinking in Wit
  Dan Gohman
• Bringing the WebAssembly standard up to speed with SpecTec
  Dongjun Youn