Nikhil Benesch
@nikhilbenesch
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Systems engineer @turbopuffer. Former CTO @MaterializeInc. Accidental data enthusiast. Find me on Bluesky: https://t.co/72LSo4iKXj
New York, NY
Joined April 2010
RT @MarcJBrooker: I understand where this is coming from, but it's missing how useful relational databases are as tools for agents. Durabi….
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RT @turbopuffer: 30x daily maintenance job speedup from one simple hack: 41h → 82m 🧹. Bottleneck was paging through S3/GCS prefixes (1:1 w/….
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The @turbopuffer Python client went async today! 🐡 ❤️ 🐍. Async client perf slightly edges out sync client perf under heavy query load.
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RT @turbopuffer: 🧵 We recently shipped a 3-4x speedup for large full-text search and filtered queries
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Big news today at turbopuffer HQ.
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RT @andyhattemer: This mention is easily going to drive more value for Turbopuffer than $1M of spend in the most efficient marketing channe….
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RT @turbopuffer: last week team tpuf welcomed two more p99 database engineers @natevanben and @danhhz ❤️🐡💨.
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RT @turbopuffer: when we said "coming soon" we really meant it. now puffin' in aws-us-east-1 and aws-eu-central-1
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Things move fast at turbopuffer. Now puffin' in aws/us-east-1 and aws/eu-central-1 too.
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I've been dreaming about conditional writes on S3 for years. I couldn't have asked for a better way to celebrate than getting to ship tpuf on AWS. 🐡.
now available: turbopuffer AWS regions ☁️ . come find us in us-west-2 and ap-southeast-2
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It’s a rare day that my love of going to battle with build systems pays off like this. Kudos to GCP for a very impressive new SKU. 🐡💨.
GCP released a new ARM machine type with NVMe SSDs recently. 70% increase in end-to-end production indexing throughput at 20-33% lower machine cost!
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Couldn't be more excited to be a part of this team.🐡💨.
welcoming two excellent additions to team tpuf this week: @arash11gt as a customer engineer, and @nikhilbenesch to the DB team from pasts at Materialize & Cockroach. we're locking in a p999 eng team to build the best search engine for scale.
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RT @badgalgge: Should you have a BYOC offering?. @MaterializeInc’s Co-Founder and CTO @nikhilbenesch goes through the alphabet soup of data….
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RT @eatonphil: The 6th (and last of 2024!) NYC Systems talks are next Thursday! We've got Jacob Aronoff of Omlet and Nikhil Benesch of @Mat….
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RT @MaterializeInc: @getnanit is revolutionizing baby monitoring with real-time insights! 👶 . What if you could get up-to-the-second data….
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RT @sjwiesman: In Postgres, my query takes 10 seconds. In @MaterializeInc, it's 10x faster—without dealing with read-replica consistency is….
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