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Xin: Transcoding database rows to Parquet speeds object storage writes with zero compromise
“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…”
Reynold Xin Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 36:50 The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
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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…”
Simon Eskildsen Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 16:38 Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
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Eskildsen: Cursor moved 20 terabytes from Postgres to Turbopuffer
“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.”
Simon Eskildsen Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 55:44 Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
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Lloyd: Warp translates natural language in any REPL session
“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.”
Zach Lloyd Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 21:22 ⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
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