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
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- 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 itโs 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 fiancรฉ, and became a Canadian citizen ๐จ๐ฆ 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 โค๏ธโ๐ฅ ๐ @PlanetScale
- turbopuffer the fashion brand might become bigger than the database
- nothing better than a graph like this in production p99: 2.3s โ 100ms p90: 400ms โ 85ms p50: 250ms โ 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. Thatโs 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














