Here's the program (https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program):

0900-1000: Compilers

  "Database query compilation: our journey" by Thomas Neumann & Viktor Leis

  "A YJIT interview" by Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert

  "A quick ramp-up on ramping up quickly" by Iain Ireland

  "Can we democratize JIT compilers?" by Haoran Xu

  "Safe and productive performance with user-schedulable languages" by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

1000-1100: Understanding programs

  "How debuggers work" by Sy Brand

  "Debugging compiler-optimized code: how it works and doesn't" by Stephen Kell

  "Side-Eye: ask your programs anything" by Andrei Matei

  "Let's run a million benchmarks" by Yao Yue

  "Rocket science of simulation testing!" by Alex / matklad

1100-1200: Wild ideas

  "Back to modularity" by Daniel Jackson

  "DB usability: as if" by Jonathan Edwards

  "Twizzler and far out memory sharing: precise abstractions" by Daniel Bittman

  "Programming without pointers" by Andrew Kelley

  "Throwing it all away - how extreme rewriting changed the way I build databases" by Tyler Neely

1200-1230: Programmers are people

  "A case for feminism in programming language design" by Felienne Hermans

  "Malloy, mic drop, peace!" by Michael Toy

1230-1300: Lightning talk buffet

  "Learning about the odd bits of SQL by reading the PostgreSQL docs" by Chris Zetter

  "Hacking Observable notebooks from within" by Tom Larkworthy

  "Zero copy data structures" by Evan Chan

  "Reliable serverless needs distributed transactions" by Stu Hood

  "Pangeo is a database" by Alexander Merose

  "Rubbing a database on a language server" by Philip Zeyliger

  "Language agnostic simulation testing on a budget" by Stevan A

  "Shapeshifter: using LLMs inside a database for schema flexibility" by David Nachman

  "Why S3's conditional writes made people excited" by Miikka Koskinen

  "pghttp: backend-free, lowest latency web apps" by Damir Simunic

1300-1400: Query languages

  "Pipe syntax in SQL; it's time" by Jeff Shute

  "PRQL: a modern, pipelined SQL replacement" by Tobias Brandt

  "AquaLang - a streaming dataflow programming language" by Klas Segeljakt

  "A polymorphic data model for SQL using algebraic types" by Steve McCanne

1400-1430: Databases

  "Use of time in distributed databases - don't fall behind the times" by Murat Demirbas

  "Enough with all the Raft" by Alex Miller

  "Database ideas in Convex" by Thomas Ballinger

  "Serverless primitives for the shared log architecture" by Stephen Balogh

  "Good thing we're not writing a database" by Peter van Hardenberg

1430-1500: Wasm

  "Thinking in Wit" by Dan Gohman

  "Bringing the WebAssembly standard up to speed with SpecTec" by Dongjun Youn