Speeding up the firehose

As the final phase of my database experiments , I&rsquo;ve been playing recently with optimizing the speed of processing in the firehose process. The Bluesky firehose is a streaming API that sends you every single thing happening on the network in real time – every post, like, follow, everything (encoded in a binary format called CBOR ). And my firehose process is a client connecting to that…