Simon Eskildsen
@Sirupsen
co-founder & ceo @turbopuffer, former infra @Shopify 1k→1m RPS
850 Following 19K Followers
you want b2b sellers so addicted to the game that they'll negotiate a 100% discount on drinks if they come late (>45min). @jeffholoman we love you
this is the b2b equivalent of refreshing your agents from the bathroom
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tpuf BM25 index tracks matching doc IDs per term:
[1, 8, 32, ... 1048576]
instead of IDs (big), we store the deltas (small):
[1, 7, 24, ... 16]
we prefix sum the deltas at query time to rebuild IDs
applying @lemire's SIMD speedup gave us up to 13% faster text search on ARM
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trying to decide how bold I feel for my daughter's techno-themed 2nd birthday party
they should pump $1B into IOI/IMO camps instead
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced Canada's largest ever investment in sports: $1 billion "to improve access to sport, to upgrade stadiums, fields, and local parks, and to provide talent with resources to get from playground to podium."
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this is my love language from customers ❤️
we are releasing our first open source project! puffgres is a sync service between Postgres and @turbopuffer. instead of two DB calls everywhere, you write ‘dumb’ JS transforms (i.e. tokenization, embedding) and the core handles logical replication, retries, batching, etc
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finally, we can create the embeddings for you. this unlocks a lot of cool roadmap
now in beta: native embeddings in tpuf
embedding is the most painful part of puffing. we want to make it easy
you can now convert chunks to vectors as you read and write to turbopuffer, without extra calls to an embedding model provider API
docs:
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authenticity to me means voicing insecurities instead of masking them.
when you don't know what to do; play with open cards.
hiding insecurities is the root of so much misery.
every startup engineer is forward deployed
the only difference between FDEs and SWEs is the % allocation between “deployed” and “engineer”
even our data scientist is engaged in B2B
Globe&Mail wrote a generous piece about turbopuffer
🥹 so excited for the summer of Brie
Worklife Update: I’m spending the summer with @turbopuffer 🐡☀️
This hardcore whimsical team (of only 38!) is doing something special and their product is exploding.
The plan is to get even more people puffing and write about the experience.
What do you want to learn about this mostly-bootstrapped pretty-Canadian AI darling making search cool again?
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p99 pod with Sam (Planetscale CEO) & Ankur (Braintrust CEO)
p99 podcast with Sam (CEO PlanetScale) & Ankur (CEO Braintrust)
so @_iamperegrine_ showed up with a 15min presentation on birds to friday demos
strong agree on loons as S-tier
great timing my daughter starts daycare soon
We're launching Intercept, a new philanthropic initiative to fight respiratory viruses like colds and flus.
turbopuffer crossed $100M run-rate in March. 19mo after $1M. Profitable & <$1M raised.
Cursor・Anthropic・Notion・Cognition・Harvey・Bridgewater・Ramp・Linear・Legora・Superhuman・Atlassian・Granola
We’d be nowhere without them. We work like hell to exceed their expectations.
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An incredible year for turbopuffer is closing. We now manage trillions of vectors and tens of petabytes. We’ve puffed up revenue 10x and headcount 5x.
We’ve helped Anthropic, Cursor, Notion and others connect every petabyte to AI to ship the most ambitious version of their product.
This week we doubled down with Lachy Groom and added Thrive Capital to the team. They have both proven themselves repeatedly to us over the past 2 years.
In 2025, we’ve proved the puffer architecture is capable of state-of-the-art vector and text search. Next year, we’ll continue to optimize the core and widen our surface area, to make it effortless to search every byte.
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