I spoke with Pierre Zemb from French neo-compute company Clever Cloud. They're building data services API-compatible with popular systems like Redis, PostgreSQL, and etcd on top of FoundationDB and Pierre is leading the work.
There is no paywall, give it a read.
theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/18...
Very cool to be linked to from @infoworld.bsky.social. The summary isn't quite right though in that it wasn't a purely negative change. The article demonstrates cases where both versions of the GC do well. Python developers decided (for now) to prefer the characteristics of the previous GC.
New in The Consensus: comments (all paid subscribers can comment) and gift links (Standard tier can gift link). We'll see how this goes!
Already had a view of which companies are mentioning various major infrastructure projects so easy next step was to rank them
(tons of caveats, largest of which is that this is just a view of what we index so far: ~500 companies, ~4500 jobs, ~12,000 articles)
theconsensus.dev/project/mysq...
And because we've got all this data on project mentions we can do our own ranking of databases and programming languages.
theconsensus.dev/databases.html
theconsensus.dev/languages.html
It is a small but growing dataset. Rankings will change as we track more organizations and stabilize somewhat.
