Gergely Orosz(@GergelyOrosz):tubopuffer's story is pretty wild: their first customer was Cursor, in hypergrowth (!!!) and after AWS Aurora could not handle Cursor's scale and this (then) tiny team pulled it off, and then some more building a DB on object storage is an undefeated idea, and a good one:

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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz

2026.05.21 14:53

tubopuffer's story is pretty wild: their first customer was Cursor, in hypergrowth (!!!) and after AWS Aurora could not handle Cursor's scale and this (then) tiny team pulled it off, and then some more building a DB on object storage is an undefeated idea, and a good one:

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