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RT @eatonphil: Wrote an article about open and closed loop benchmarking, looking properties of the two approaches and pitfalls while benchm…
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Everything's sandbox. (Blacksmith has a sandbox offering in beta.)
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@sequoia is leading our Series C at a $1B valuation.
We started Blacksmith in 2024 to make CI faster and less painful. In January we ran 5 million CI jobs a week. Today it's over 90 million and growing, and we’re still early.
ALT Line chart of weekly CI jobs run on Blacksmith, growing from 5.4M in January to 90.5M in October 2026.
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If you'd like to understand what's going on with sandbox companies, I wrote an introduction last week.
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We just raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation to build @daytonaio into the Agent Cloud.
@FirstMarkCap led the round, with all key existing investors and angels doubling down.
We're also thrilled to welcome the founders of some generational companies aboard, including @patrickc (Stripe), @tobi (Shopify), @AravSrinivas (Perplexity), @BrendanFoody (Mercor), @oliveur (Datadog), @adamdangelo (Quora) and @ericsyuan (Zoom)
We're a 35-person team. But that's about to change; we're hiring across the board, and we'd love for you to join us.
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I took my first look into the market and technologies spurring agent sandboxes.
Exclusive for Standard subscribers.
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Compression and concatenation on the web
Everybody knows you can concatenate gzip files to form valid gzip files, but do the browsers know? We explore concatenation with gzip, brotli, and zstd. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/10/0…
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Feed search is now open to everyone, no account needed. And one of my favorite little features in feed search is backlink lookups. 🕵️
Keep in mind: the feed is only among companies, developers, and projects we index. Items in the feed must mention a project we track. And the feed is pre-filtered to exclude docs, marketing pages, etc. It's a feed of (ideally) only good quality writing in software infrastructure.
Anyone can search. And paid (Standard) subscribers can turn these filters into RSS feeds or email alerts.
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The Consensus is really a great resource of human-created content for learning about data infra. An oasis in a world of AI slop.
Short blog post on the little part The Consensus plays in promoting (good) human writing.
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.@eatonphil has created a great resource for the community at The Consensus -- check it out for hand-selected, human-authored articles on sw infrastructure ...
Short blog post on the little part The Consensus plays in promoting (good) human writing.
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Short blog post on the little part The Consensus plays in promoting (good) human writing.
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Should people still read and write technical content in this agentic era? Absolutely, and you should too!
Code is always important, but the people behind it are even more important because, to build great products, you need human intuition and perspective.
I think we should always believe in people, their perspectives, and their experience in tech over code.
Thats why I really love the slogan of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF): "Community Over Code".
I've been following Phil Eaton since his time at EDB and really love his work and what Phil is now building with The Consensus.
I think its still really important to share human-created content and developer stories, even in this agentic era.
I think The Consensus is really an oasis in the world of AI-generated slop.
Today, I read the story of Deepthi Sigireddi, Head of Databases at Supabase, and really loved her story of how she came into the world of databases and spent more than 20 years building databases, or more accurately, scaling databases through Vitess at PlanetScale and now Multigres at Supabase.
If you know database companies, these two are among the coolest companies in our space.
Love learning about databases? Follow The Consensus. Its really an amazing resource for database people.
Read her full story here: theconsensus.dev/p/2026/10/0…
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Everybody knows you can concatenate gzip files to form valid gzip files, but do the browsers know? We explore concatenation with gzip, brotli, and zstd.
paywall has expired, give it a read
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Now indexing 215 internships at companies building software infrastructure. All internships are freely and fully searchable as a service to students.
Zero reason you should not be sharing with your students, friends, kids. Let's get them hacking.
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I chatted with @ATechGirl from @supabase on her 25 years of experience as a developer, her time as the project lead of Vitess, her work on Multigres, and databases at Supabase in general.
No paywall, give it a read.
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the best filter for "real systems job" i've found so far. most boards think kubernetes yaml counts as infra
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Over 10,000 open software jobs now indexed on The Consensus, at nearly 900 companies building software infrastructure.
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Good read 👍
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Everybody knows you can concatenate gzip files to form valid gzip files, but do the browsers know? We explore concatenation with gzip, brotli, and zstd.
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I'm a happy subscriber, best source of technical content right now. I go here to decompress and wake up my brain after a week of dealing with AI.