Nikhil Benesch (@nikhilbenesch) 's Twitter Profile
Nikhil Benesch

@nikhilbenesch

Systems engineer @turbopuffer. Former CTO @MaterializeInc. Accidental data enthusiast. Find me on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/benesc…

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Andy Hattemer (@andyhattemer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This mention is easily going to drive more value for Turbopuffer than $1M of spend in the most efficient marketing channel. Maybe $10M

Nikhil Benesch (@nikhilbenesch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The turbopuffer Python client went async today! 🐡 ❤️ 🐍 Async client perf slightly edges out sync client perf under heavy query load. github.com/turbopuffer/tu…

The <a href="/turbopuffer/">turbopuffer</a> Python client went async today! 🐡 ❤️ 🐍

Async client perf slightly edges out sync client perf under heavy query load.

github.com/turbopuffer/tu…
turbopuffer (@turbopuffer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

30x daily maintenance job speedup from one simple hack: 41h → 82m 🧹 Bottleneck was paging through S3/GCS prefixes (1:1 w/namespaces). Added a read-through cache of every Nth prefix (N=page_size/2) so now we can list with arbitrary concurrency.

30x daily maintenance job speedup from one simple hack: 41h → 82m 🧹

Bottleneck was paging through S3/GCS prefixes (1:1 w/namespaces). Added a read-through cache of every Nth prefix (N=page_size/2) so now we can list with arbitrary concurrency.
Marc Brooker (@marcjbrooker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I understand where this is coming from, but it's missing how useful relational databases are as tools for agents. Durability, transactions, queries, schema, all of these things are useful tools for agents that need to write stuff down and find it later.

Nikhil Benesch (@nikhilbenesch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

They’re calling it our most boring feature yet. boring(n): mundane; works exactly as expected; the highest praise you can give a database

Adrien Grand (@jpountz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I spent some time looking at the Vespa source code to see how it compares with Lucene jpountz.github.io/2025/07/25/mor…

David Crawshaw (@davidcrawshaw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are all (quite rightly) spending a lot of money suddenly on devtools, almost entirely in the form of tokens from a frontier model. But the trend here suggests we will end up back where we started, with open tools that can be run locally, or at least on commodity providers.

Simon Eskildsen (@sirupsen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

team tpuf is looking for someone excited to take our web dashboard to the next level! perfect candidate is fluent in building for the web and database-curious, as it will involve changes to the db (dm me)

team tpuf is looking for someone excited to take our web dashboard to the next level!

perfect candidate is fluent in building for the web and database-curious, as it will involve changes to the db (dm me)