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Announcing Silk: a silky smooth fiber runtime for ClickHouse

Silk is a new open-source C++ fiber runtime built for ClickHouse, combining a NUMA-aware work-stealing scheduler, io_uring I/O, and zero heap allocation in the steady state to deliver nanosecond-level fiber yields and dramatically lower tail latency for h

James Cunningham and Vadim Skipin

Jun 25, 2026 · 16 minutes read