SBTB 2023: Shadaj Laddad, Hydro: A Stack for Faster Streaming Applications

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Building efficient, scalable, and resilient services is a challenging task, and has long been reserved to distributed systems experts who must reason about invariants across systems and make hand-tuned optimization decisions. But what if writing distributed systems could be just as easy as spinning up a single webapp? In this talk, I'll walk through our research building compilers for distributed systems, which automatically make optimization decisions and help developers safely interact with streaming data. We'll explore Hydroflow, a streaming dataflow language that compiles to Rust, as well as cutting-edge research that automatically distributes single-node programs. More details available here: https://www.scale.bythebay.io/post/shadaj-laddad-hydro-a-stack-for-faster-streaming-applications