The first few HYTRADBOI 2025 talks are ready! I'm so excited to be finally able to tell people about them!

Talk #1: A YJIT interview with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert

Talk #2: "DB usability: as if" by Jonathan Edwards (@jonathoda)
Talk #3: "Side-Eye: ask your programs anything" by Andrei Matei
Lightning talk #1: "Learning about the odd bits of SQL by reading the PostgreSQL docs" by Chris Zetter (@zetter)
Lightning talk #2: "Hacking Observable Notebooks from within" by Tom Larkworthy
Lightning talk #3: "Zero Copy Data Structures" by Evan Chan (@velvia)
Talk #4: "A case for Feminism in Programming Language Design" by Felienne Hermans (@Felienne)
Talk #5: "Back to Modularity" by Daniel Jackson
Talk #6: "Can we democratize JIT compilers?" by Haoran Xu
Talk #7: "Bringing the WebAssembly Standard up to Speed with SpecTec" by Dongjun Youn
Talk #8: "How Debuggers Work" by Sy Brand (@TartanLlama)
Talk #9: "Malloy, Mic Drop, Peace!" by Michael Toy
Talk #10: "Twizzler and Far Out Memory Sharing: Precise Abstractions" by Daniel Bittman (@dbittman)
Talk #11: "A Polymorphic Data Model for SQL using Algebraic Types" by Steve McCanne
Lightning talk #4: "Reliable Serverless Needs Distributed Transactions" by Stu Hood
Talk #12: "Programming Without Pointers" by Andrew Kelley (@andrewrk)
Talk #13: "Thinking in Wit" by Dan Gohman (@sunfish)
Talk #14: "Throwing It All Away - how extreme rewriting changed the way I build databases" by Tyler Neely (@Spacejam)
Talk #15: "Use of Time in Distributed Databases - don't fall behind the times" by Murat Demirbas (@muratdemirbas)
Talk #16: "Debugging compiler-optimized code: how it works and doesn't" by Stephen Kell (@stephenrkell)

The program is up and tickets are live at https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program.

I'll keep updating this thread as the last 10 talks hit camera-ready.

HYTRADBOI 2025

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Talk #17: "AquaLang: a streaming dataflow programming language" by Klas Segeljakt
Talk #18: "Rocket science of simulation testing!" by Alex Kladov / matklad
Talk #19: "Pipe syntax in SQL; it's time" by Jeff Shute
Talk #20: "Database query compilation: our journey" by Thomas Neumann & Viktor Leis
Lightning talk #5: "Pangeo is a database" by Alexander Merose
Lightning talk #6: "Rubbing a database on a language server" by Philip Zeyliger
Lightning talk #7: "Language agnostic simulation testing on a budget" by Stevan A
Lightning talk #8: "Shapeshifter: using LLMs inside a database for schema flexibility" by David Nachman
Lightning talk #9: "Why S3's conditional writes made people excited" by Miikka Koskinen (@Miikka)
Talk #21: "Database ideas in Convex" by Thomas Ballinger
Talk #22: "Safe and productive performance with user-schedulable languages" by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
Talk 23: "PRQL: a modern, pipelined SQL replacement" by Tobias Brandt (@snth)
Talk 24: "Serverless primitives for the shared log architecture" by Stephen Balogh
Talk 25: "A quick ramp-up on ramping up quickly" by Iain Ireland (@iainireland)
Talk 26: "Enough with all the Raft" by Alex Miller (@AlexMillerDB)
Talk 27: "Let's run a million benchmarks" by Yao Yue (@thinkingfish)
Talk 28: "Good thing we're not writing a database" by Peter van Hardenberg (@pvh)