Formal methods consultant Hillel Wayne argues that software engineering earns the title of 'real engineering' due to its rigor, while noting that version control is uniquely sophisticated in software …
Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of turbopuffer, advocates for 'napkin math'—quick back-of-the-envelope calculations to identify performance and cost inefficiencies in software systems. Speaking at…
A24 Labs released puffgres (beta), a logical replication service that mirrors Postgres entities in turbopuffer, eliminating data drift by making Postgres the source of truth and automatically syncing …
Object storage is becoming primary storage for databases, streaming systems, and AI pipelines, shifting the key benchmark from GB/s to objects per second at small sizes. Companies like WarpStream, Cli…
A developer released Sana, an open-source vector database built on object storage that supports vectors, full-text search, and attribute filters. The project, inspired by turbopuffer, uses object stor…
Robert Erez, a principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, discussed CI/CD best practices on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, advocating for rolling forward instead of rolling back, warning that GitOps is no…