The Fastest Object Storage Client in the World (Georg Kreuzmayr, TigerBeetle)
TigerBeetle is a database for financial transactions. It exposes debits and credits in place of SQL, supports only strict serializability, and runs a replicated state machine on top of an LSM tree. To grow from terabytes to petabytes it needed to put cold data in object storage, and the cloud vendors’ SDKs didn’t fit how TigerBeetle does I/O, memory or testing. In this 24-minute talk Georg Kreuzmayr walks through the client they wrote instead, one layer at a time....