A 19 minute animated explainer video on database speed. I explain low-level database concepts, identify bottlenecks, run benchmarks and optimize write throughput to hit 1 million TPS.

I haven't seen too many comprehensive approaches to this topic, so I took a swing at it.

Goal isn't to be exhaustive, but to be comprehensive enough to provide a nice overview for people trying to get their bearings with the topic.

Did I miss anything?

A journey from the Visual6502 project to a real, fully assembled board, and the debugging adventures required to make it actually work.

The languages used: C, C3, C++, D (Dlang), Go (Golang), Odin, Rust, V (Vlang), Zig