Simon Eskildsen
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co-founder & ceo @turbopuffer, former infra @Shopify 1k→1m RPS
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puff with the best.
100K+ searches per second on turbopuffer across trillions of docs
to celebrate, a few teams puffin’ hard modeled for our new puffer jackets
Cognition • Ramp • Harvey • Notion • Legora
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”—Emerson
Not a quote guy, but I think about this every day.
Not a quote guy, but I think about this every day.
many of our customers make use of namespaces to model tenants (encryption, performance, isolation)
we've been working on significantly evolving the caching layer.
we've been working on significantly evolving the caching layer.
we're redesigning our caching tier
current: whole files evicted in the order written (FIFO)
new: smaller chunks, least-read evicted first (LFU)
on a cluster where a small fraction of data gets most of the reads, this improves byte hit ratio by ~2x → p99 query latency drops ~2xView quoted post on X