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It's an insight from Heidi Howard et al. that came out after VSR: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06696 and can be applied to VSR (and others). The basic idea is pretty simple. In VSR, …

Tobi here from TB. Great question, and it's important to be nuanced here. It really depends on the problem space. For example, many OLAP workloads (analytical) contain large amount…

Hi, Tobi here from TB. Great question! Generally, 130 ms of network latency is challenging, and there often isn't an easy way around it as you're ultimately constrained by the spee…

Pretty nice library! Personally, I think having a language-native library is great. The only downside is that it becomes a long-term commitment if it needs to stay in sync with the…

There is some interesting ongoing research on eBPF and uring that you might find interesting, e.g., RingGuard: Guarding io_uring with eBPF ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3609021.…

Great point. It is indeed the case that most io_uring libraries are lagging behind liburing. There are two main reasons for this: (1) io_uring development is moving very quickly (s…

The post is updated now to reflect this.

Good catch! We will fix this in the next version and change it to brk/sbrk or mmap

That’s great to hear! We are happy it helped.

We also wrote up a very concise, high-level summary here, if you want the short version: https://toziegler.github.io/2025-12-08-io-uring/