Announcing Silk: a silky smooth fiber runtime for ClickHouse
Summary
Silk is a C++ fiber-based runtime for ClickHouse designed for high-concurrency I/O with io_uring, zero heap allocations in steady state, and NUMA-aware work stealing. The article explains fiber basics, Silk's design choices, benchmarks, Linux-only constraints, and planned integrations such as the distributed cache. It also highlights tooling like GDB extension and BPF profiler and provides source links.