Turbopuffer
also referred to as: turbo puffer
23 statements across 3 episodes · 10 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2025 by Loïc Houssier · said 56 times in 7 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Simon Eskildsen (24), Shawn Wang (21), Alessio Fanelli (4), Loïc Houssier (2), Jo Kristian Bergum (1), Emil Eifrem (1), Dhravya Shah (1)
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2026 51 mentions in 4 episodes 13 per episode
- Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- ⚡️ OpenClaw's Memory Sucks and the fix is simple — Dhravya Shah, Supermemory
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Turbopuffer, oldest first
Dec 11, 2025 positive
Mar 9, 2026 bearish
Mar 12, 2026 neutral
Eskildsen: Anthropic, Notion, and Cursor use Turbopuffer across three deployment models
“You can run Turbo Puffer either in SAS, right? That's what cursor does. You can run it in a single tenant cluster. So it's just you. That's what Notion does. And then you can run it in, in, in BYOC where everything is inside the customer's VPC. That's what, fo…”
Mar 12, 2026
Eskildsen: Offered to return capital if Turbopuffer lacked PMF by year-end
“I don't think I've said this publicly before, but I just called Locky and was like, well, Locky, like, if this doesn't have PMF by the end of the year, like, we'll just like return all the money to you. But it's just like, I don't really, Justine and I don't w…”
Mar 12, 2026
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer cuts query pricing 5x for agentic workloads
“We've reduced query pricing. This is probably the first time actually I'm saying that, but the query pricing is being reduced. Like, Five X. And we'll probably try to reduce it even more to accommodate some of these workloads of just doing very large amounts o…”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer benefited from having an investor without database expertise
“The other people were talking at the time where database experts, like they, you know, knew a lot about databases and Lockheed didn't. This turned out to be a phenomenal asset, right? I like Justine and I know a lot about databases. The people that we hired kn…”
Mar 12, 2026
Eskildsen: Scaling a database company requires supporting almost every query plan
“If you want to build a big database company, The database over time has to implement more or less every query plan, because when you have your data in a database, you expect it to over time, not just search, but also, Hey, I want to aggregate this column. I wa…”
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer ANN v3 searches 100B vectors with 40ms p50 latency
“ANN v. Three can search a hundred billion vectors with a p-fifty of around 40 milliseconds and a p-ninety-nine of 200 milliseconds. Maybe other people have done this. I'm sure Google and others have done this, but we haven't seen anyone at least not in like a …”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer outperforms Lucene on long LLM search queries
“Turbo Puffer today has a fairly start of the state of the art full text search engine.
We beat Lucene on some queries, in particular, very long queries that we've optimized for, because those are the text search queries we see today.”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Eskildsen: Object-storage-first databases trade 200ms write latency for pure upside
“The only real downside to that is that if you go all in on object storage, every write will take a couple hundred milliseconds of latency, but from there, it's really all upside, right? You do the first query, it takes half a second”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Eskildsen: Modern hardware requires databases designed around concurrent requests, not sequential roundtrips
“You really have to build a database where you have as few round trips as possible, right? This is how CPUs work today. It's how NVMe SSDs work. It's how S three works that you want to have a very large amount of outstanding requests, right? Like basically go t…”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Mar 12, 2026
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer interview debriefs default to rejecting candidates unless championed
“And so I have a document called Traits of the P-Nine engineer, and it's a bullet point list, and I look at that list after every single interview that I do, and in every single recap that we do, and every recap we end with, I end with some version of, I'm gonn…”
Mar 12, 2026
Mar 12, 2026 neutral
Eskildsen: Neon retrofitted Postgres for S3, while Turbopuffer built pure object-storage consensus
“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…”
Mar 12, 2026
Mar 12, 2026 negative
Eskildsen: The worst outages stem from multi-system unsynchronized state
“And the worst outages are the ones where you have state in multiple places that's not syncing up. So it really came from a, like, just a very pure source of pain of just imagining what we would be okay being woken up at three a.m. About, and having something i…”
Mar 12, 2026
Turbopuffer Bought Oregon Dark Fiber to Serve Notion Across Clouds
“It started getting really painful in like mid-twenty-twenty-four, because we were closing deals with Notion actually, that was running in AWS, and we're like, trust us, you really want us to run this in GCP?
And they were like, no, I don't know about that, lik…”
Mar 12, 2026
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Eskildsen: Cursor obfuscates file paths and encrypts code stored in Turbopuffer
“Cursors like security posture into Turbo Puffer is exceptional, right? They have their own embedding model, which makes it very difficult to reverse engineer. They obfuscate the file paths. They are like, You, it's very difficult to learn anything about a code…”