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 builds is a bit more complicated. (Although hopefully it will get

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 larger size limit on transactions (10GB). In this blog post I'll

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 at Go a lot and played with examples and toy programs

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 some of the practicalities, specifically around work/life balance. When working

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 workers to master. I am personally still working on this stuff

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 for everyone. Given that we are currently seeing the world's largest

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 moment is embarrassing, when people ask me what error library they

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 to do some things differently. Once I started writing, I found

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 think it is worth me writing up my experience. The

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. There will be three high-priority focus areas: cross-compilation, plugins, and compile

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 (assuming there is another edition and that it happens in about

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 I recommend you read it. Raft has been implemented in Rust

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 excited about the new job. I think database implementation and distributed

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 remote, with a few stints in the Auckland office. It has

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 transition from declarative to procedural macros (this works pretty well when

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 hope to meet some of my internet friends (get in touch!

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 changes, but more than that it's an opportunity to bring attention

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 and ready for widespread use. We're going to have a blog

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), so I wanted to expand on what 1.0 means for

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 be available with stable Rust. 1.0 for the RLS is

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 will be available with stable Rust. 1.0 will be a

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 are planning to release the 2018 edition, our first since the

2018-05-10 Welcome to the 4th issue of these weeks in dev-tools! We've re-organised the teams a little bit and have been working hard towards the 2018 edition release. These Weeks in Dev-Tools will keep you up to date with all the exciting dev tools