TigerBeetleDB

Some folks who read TIGER_STYLE.md (the TigerBeetle coding guide) are surprised to learn that TigerBeetle allocates no memory after startup.

I tested the top 100 Rust crates on crates.io for backwards compatibility. Then I removed every dependency from the TigerBeetle Rust client and backported it to Rust 1.39, from 2019.

I hate shell scripting with a passion. Whenever I join a project, I go on a crusade to rewrite all bash scripts into the project's main language. I have Java For Everything tattooed on my arm (no). The code I've written at TigerBeetle that I am most proud

We processed a trillion transactions to test TigerBeetle's scale.

Wherein we make progress towards solving one of the most vexing problems of Computer Science - naming things.

Time is like a river made up of events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place. - Meditations, Book IV

Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants' carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was e

Consider this tale of I/O and performance. We'll start with blocking I/O, explore io_uring and kqueue, and take home an event loop very similar to some software you may find familiar.

TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness. Yet, building a correct system from correct components remains a challenge: