1. Find big scary equation that's hard to parse
2. Latex OCR it with Mathpix
3. Ask ChatGPT to break it down into heavily commented Python
Simon Eskildsen
13.8K posts
Simon Eskildsen
@Sirupsen
- After 4 months of focused work, I'm launching what is, to my knowledge, the first truly serverless vector database: turbopuffer.com $1/month per million vectors (10-70x cheaper than others) $4 per million queries
- 2 years ago today. Imagine what we'll do in the next 2.After 4 months of focused work, I'm launching what is, to my knowledge, the first truly serverless vector database: turbopuffer.com $1/month per million vectors (10-70x cheaper than others) $4 per million queries
- nothing taught me more about how software ages than staying in place at Shopify for 8y underrated & under-practised
- any database is just a WAL with indexes then it’s down to tradeoffs in guarantees, storage and indexes
- Last week I closed out an epic 8-year chapter of my life, with my last day at Shopify: Moved to the New World, built incredible things with a stellar team, made amazing friends, met my fiancé, and became a Canadian citizen 🇨🇦 Next up: a summer of paddling and @ComputerNapkins
- how ppl think you get perf: io_uring how you get e2e perf: napkin math, trace everything, simplify everything, tune TCP (for real), tune LB, hedging, profile client lib
- would've killed for this at shopify. schema changes PRs is ❤️🔥 😘 @PlanetScale
- turbopuffer the fashion brand might become bigger than the database
- nothing better than a graph like this in production p99: 2.3s → 100ms p90: 400ms → 85ms p50: 250ms → 65ms by moving to zero-copy on an auxiliary data-structure mostly used out-of-band for e.g. billing
- Reaching 1 million merchants on Shopify is just bonkers. That’s how many people live here in Ottawa. The only real sense of scale I can get is imagining walking door to door in this city and everyone is a merchant. Mind-boggling.
- S3 has finally added `put-if-match` for compare-and-swap! Expect AWS turbopuffer regions very soon
