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Nikita | Scaling Postgres

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Nikita | Scaling Postgres

@nikitabase

CEO @neondatabase. Best Postgres for developers and vibe coders.

San Francisco, CA

Joined June 2010

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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Nov 12, 2023
Database architecture thread. Technical. There has been several startups building an operational relational databases focused on OLTP with a shared nothing architecture. @neondatabase is using a different approach - shared storage. What's the difference?
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Jul 21, 2024
Congratulations to the US Math team beating China and claiming #1 in the world in IMO
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Mar 15, 2025
So much happened in the world of AI agents this week. From Manus, OpenAI’s new Agent SDK, Google’s Gemma 3, and the Command A model. Here are the latest in AI agents for devs! 🧵
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Mar 27, 2025
MCP is becoming an industry standard. Here is how ↓
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Jul 2, 2024
Postgres has low connection limits, many settings that require restarts to change, and difficulty parallelizing because of an early decision to make it a multi-process architecture. My cofounder Heikki presented at pgconf on making Postgres multithreaded. Here’s a summary, links
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Jan 12, 2023
Every company should have access to an LLM that is tuned on ALL the enterprise data, connected to the data warehouse, and able to have a dialog about it. This time around it feels like a much bigger idea compared to attempts at enterprise search.
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Sep 22, 2025
The issue @rauchg is missing is that people grow. Possible @satyanadella's talent wasn't obvious when he just came to the US. If you cut the H1B top of the funnel you miss folks that grow through years of focus and hard work.
Guillermo Rauch
@rauchg
Sep 21, 2025
Some facts. The visa that’s been fueling Silicon Valley is O-1, not H-1B. It’s called “Individual of Extraordinary Ability”. It costs about $1000 to apply¹ and it’s unchanged. But what it also costs is the burden of proof of contribution. It’s the visa I got as an Argentinian
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Mar 22, 2025
Another massive week for AI Agents. I summarized everything from Google, Baidu, OpenAI, NVIDIA and more. Here's everything you need to know 👇🏼
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
May 14, 2025
I’m excited to share a major milestone: Neon is joining forces with @databricks. neon.tech/blog/neon-and-… Together, we will build the best Postgres experience in the world and one of the most important pieces of the modern AI-native stack. Day 1 again for @neondatabase
Neon and Databricks - Neon
From neon.com
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
May 29, 2025
neon.com is live
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Aug 28, 2022
Formula for an infrastructure startup success: - Find a 10x architectural advantage in cost and speed in a large category. - Build a freakishly good engineering team to implement the architecture in a narrow but deep product. - Relentlessly drive user experience.
Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Jul 4, 2023
I came to the US in 2005, spoke no English, and had $400 to my net worth. 18 years later I'm building a second tech company and still in awe of how it all came about. Greatest country on Earth! 🇺🇸🚀🫡
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Aug 1, 2023
Excited to announce our series B raise @neondatabase:
Neon raises $46 Million to advance serverless PostgreSQL database for the AI era
From venturebeat.com
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Nikita | Scaling Postgres
@nikitabase
Oct 20, 2025
We managed 99.97% of database operations successfully on US-East-1 throughout the outage. Mostly because we depend on a relatively short list of AWS services. We buy big metal instances from AWS relatively infrequently, and then handle all the tenant provisioning ourselves.
Neon Postgres
@neondatabase
Oct 20, 2025
Replying to @neondatabase
Neon runs warm pools of compute and storage so new database creates are fast and generally don't require resource changes on AWS. This architecture meant we could still run 99.9%+ of database operations throughout the incident.
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