Ashwin Madavan
Ashwin Madavan
Rust's performance is on par with [C](https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks), and its expressiveness and elegance are on par with [Scala](https://beachape.com/blog/2017/05/24/rust-from-scala/). Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Pants supports Rust yet (even though its engine...
GRPC is over HTTP/2, while Cap'n Proto is over TCP. This should significantly improve network performance.
- [x] Lower consensus backoff duration to slightly more than the 99% latency. - [x] Fail-fast if a proposal conflicts with a proposal on the same beaker. - [x] ```SortedMap```...
Consensus is already tail recursive; however, the Scala compiler isn't smart enough to know it. If we replace the various ```flatMap``` calls with ```match``` expressions, the Scala compiler will recognize...
[Benchmarks](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu-clear-eoy2017&num=5) and [features](https://www.infoworld.com/article/3159658/linux/6-key-points-about-intels-hot-new-linux-distro.html) make it sound promising for our workloads. AWS runs exclusively on Intel hardware, so we'll be able to make use of the CPU-specific optimizations in Clear Linux....