I've been working on the distributed transaction system in TiKV for about a year now. TiKV is an open-source, distributed and transactional key-value store written in Rust. Recently, I've been helping create a

TiDB is a distributed, MySQL-compatible database. It is built on top of TiKV, a distributed key-value store. Building these projects is easy - clone the Git repos, then run make. Unfortunately running development

In TiDB 4.0, we've extended the transaction system to handle large transactions. Previously, TiDB limited the number of reads and writes in a transaction. In version 4.0 there is a much

This post was originally published on the PingCAP blog. I've been using Go for the past few weeks. It's my first time using Go for a large (-ish), serious project. I've previously looked

This is the third (and last, for now) post in a series on remote work. Previous posts discussed some basics for remote work and communication. In this post I'll talk a bit about

In my last post I talked a bit about some general issues with remote work. In this post I am going to focus on communication - probably the most important thing for remote

I've been working remotely (in various ways and at various companies) for nearly ten years. I love working remotely, I am happier and more productive. However, it takes some adjustment and it's not

We need to work on error handling. It's a difficult thing to work on because a lot of people have strong opinions, but I think we should. Rust's error handling story at the

I was thinking of not writing a blog post this year. I didn't think I'd have much to say. But I thought that I should, I had some nagging feelings that we needed

I recently migrated a small/medium-sized crate from Futures 0.1 to 0.3. It was fairly easy, but there were some tricky bits and some things that were not well documented, so

I recently published a post detailing a vision for the next few years (hah! Not so recently now, this took a lot longer than expected). Here I'll get into more detail about 2019.

The Cargo team have been thinking about and discussing long-term plans for Cargo. In this post I'll talk about what we hope Cargo will look like around the time of the next edition

Raft is an algorithm for distributed consensus. It was introduced in this paper, 'In search of an understandable consensus algorithm' by Ongaro and Ousterhout, in 2014. It is a very readable paper and

Last week was my last at Mozilla, and tomorrow is my first day at PingCAP. I don't have much to blog about because, you know, I haven't started yet. But I am very

Today is my last day as an employee of Mozilla. It's been almost exactly seven years - two years working on graphics and layout for Firefox, and five years working on Rust. Mostly

I'm announcing a new library for procedural macro authors: proc-macro-rules (and on crates.io). It allows you to do macro_rules-like pattern matching inside a procedural macro. The goal is to smooth the

LCA 2018 is happening in January in Christchurch (which is a great conference and has a few Rust talks this year). I'm not able to attend, but I am in town, so I

A response to the call for 2019 roadmap blog posts. In case you missed it, we released our second edition of Rust this year! An edition is an opportunity to make backwards incompatible

In a few days the 2018 edition is going to roll out, and that will include some new framing around Rust's tooling. We've got a core set of developer tools which are stable

In my last post, I announced a release candidate for the RLS 1.0. There has been a lot of feedback (and quite a lot of that was negative on the general idea)

The current version of the Rust Language Server (RLS), 0.130.5, is the first 1.0 release candidate. It is available on nightly and beta channels, and from the 3rd September will

The current version of Rustfmt, 0.99.2, is the first 1.0 release candidate. It is available on nightly and beta (technically 0.99.1 there) channels, and from the 13th September

How to help test the 2018 edition An edition brings together the features that have landed into a clear package, with fully updated documentation and tooling. By the end of the year we