SQLite is already fast. But can we make it even faster? Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge began with this question and published a paper, “Serverless Runtime / Database Co-Design With Asynchronous I/O”. They demonstrate up to a 100x reduction in tail latency. These are my notes on the paper.This is the foundational paper behind Limbo, the SQLite rewrite in Rust. Let’s dive in.Note that this is a workshop paper and a very short read. It also focuses more on serverless and ed...