Postgres

“At some point, every company gets the scale, every successful company gets the scale where Postgres is not cutting it. And then you migrate to some sort of NoSQL database.”

“Surprisingly there were a lot of Postgres issues when ChatGPT came out because the accounts for like ChatGPT were tied to the accounts in the API. And so you're basically creating a developer account to log into ChatGPT at the time, because it's just what we h…”

“My conclusion is that this is a very real problem for a very small number of companies, and that is why Datadog, Splunk, Honeycomb, et cetera, built their own database technology, which is, in some ways, it's sad because all of the technology is a remix of pie…”

“To go and implement a database that's better than Postgres is a, like, Sisyphean task, whereas building tools that are better for Gen.ai than some of the stuff that's about now is not very difficult. Putting the actual models themselves to one side.”

“So if you're doing like work in Node or Python, Postgres, MySQL, it works in any REPL and it's a it's a pretty differentiated and cool feature of Warp.”

“Like at some point, cursor moved like 20 terabytes of Postgres data into Turbo Puffer, because it's like, it's there, it works, and these particular query plans we know work well, and so they just moved it all to defer sharding.”

“I think neon neon was first to, and they're trying to retrofit it onto Postgres. And then they built this whole architecture where you have it in memory, and then you sort of like, you know, mmap back to S-III, and I think that was very novel at the time to do…”

“And as a matter of fact, once you transcode the data compresses better. So from those services writing to, for example, S three or other data lake, like object stores, you can actually write them faster because now they are now smaller. So there's no. Overhead…”

“This is sort of the holy grail of database engineering is, why not build a single system that can do both of this? But it ends up just being a lot of compromises. And one, I think one of the first issue is that, hey, each, they say Postgres has a massive ecosy…”