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POSTS

• by nikita on 7/31/2025, 8:28 PM with comments

• A recap on May/June stability at Neon

  by nikita on 7/16/2025, 8:22 PM with 5 comments

• Microsoft open sources a document database built on Postgres

  by nikita on 1/28/2025, 9:27 PM with 0 comments

• WeSQL. Separation of storage and compute for MySQL

  by nikita on 12/1/2024, 7:41 PM with 1 comments

• New Sota Text to Image

  by nikita on 10/31/2024, 1:53 PM with 0 comments

• Top Features in Postgres 17

  by nikita on 8/30/2024, 11:01 PM with 0 comments

• The State of the Postgres Community

  by nikita on 8/3/2024, 1:08 PM with 0 comments

• Multi-Threaded Postgres [video]

  by nikita on 7/2/2024, 3:14 PM with 1 comments

• Postgres has low connection limits and goes towards multi-threaded architecture

  by nikita on 7/2/2024, 2:58 PM with 1 comments

• Motherduck Is Now GA

  by nikita on 6/11/2024, 4:11 PM with 0 comments

• MIT Uncovers Photomolecular Effect: Light Can Vaporize Water Without Heat

  by nikita on 5/5/2024, 11:29 AM with 1 comments

• Postgres Storage as a Transaction Journal

  by nikita on 5/1/2024, 8:30 PM with 0 comments

• New benchmark study puts Recraft ahead of Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3

  by nikita on 3/19/2024, 4:06 PM with 1 comments

• Running Postgres in Bun

  by nikita on 2/22/2024, 10:28 PM with 0 comments

• by nikita on 2/21/2024, 5:11 PM with comments

• Bring your own S3 to Neon Postgres

  by nikita on 1/31/2024, 10:25 PM with 3 comments

• How can you make a stateful legacy system serverless? Postgres example

  by nikita on 11/17/2023, 6:19 AM with 0 comments

• Database Architecture Thread

  by nikita on 11/12/2023, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Neon adds pgvector support for HNSW index

  by nikita on 8/30/2023, 5:40 PM with 0 comments

• Pgvector Meets HNSW Index

  by nikita on 8/3/2023, 8:19 PM with 0 comments

• On-disk HNSW index for Postgres with pg_embedding

  by nikita on 8/3/2023, 6:08 PM with 28 comments

• We Raised another $46M – What’s Next?

  by nikita on 8/2/2023, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• 20x faster than pgvector: HNSW index in Postgres with pg_embedding

  by nikita on 7/12/2023, 2:59 PM with 52 comments

• HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which one is the fastest for Postgres queries at the edge?

  by nikita on 7/11/2023, 3:06 PM with 48 comments

• Autoscaling Postgres

  by nikita on 3/30/2023, 4:25 PM with 1 comments

• Deep Dive into Neon storage engine that enables serverless Postgres

  by nikita on 3/30/2023, 3:23 PM with 5 comments

• Scaling serverless Postgres: How we implement autoscaling

  by nikita on 3/29/2023, 2:37 PM with 9 comments

• Quicker serverless Postgres connections

  by nikita on 3/28/2023, 3:17 PM with 98 comments

• Time travel in Postgres. Bisect to the last valid transaction

  by nikita on 12/7/2022, 6:06 PM with 16 comments

• Adding PostgreSQL 15 support to Neon Storage using Rust

  by nikita on 11/9/2022, 8:07 PM with 0 comments

• Create a Neon Serverless Postgres project with 1 click with Hasura

  by nikita on 10/18/2022, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• Things that will be possible in a database platform when we apply AI and LLMs

  by nikita on 9/20/2022, 3:43 AM with 0 comments

• Neon Branching Use Cases

  by nikita on 9/13/2022, 2:58 PM with 0 comments

• by nikita on 8/4/2022, 6:54 PM with comments

• Most Billion-Dollar Startups in the U.S. Founded by Immigrants

  by nikita on 7/31/2022, 5:54 PM with 16 comments

• State of PostgreSQL 2022

  by nikita on 7/29/2022, 3:06 PM with 0 comments

• Neon raises 30M to build serverless Postgres

  by nikita on 7/28/2022, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Neon Raises 30M

  by nikita on 7/26/2022, 1:22 PM with 0 comments

• Architecture Decisions in Neon

  by nikita on 7/8/2022, 10:51 PM with 7 comments

• by nikita on 6/30/2022, 3:25 PM with comments

• With Neondatabase, *truly* serverless PostgreSQL is finally here

  by nikita on 6/15/2022, 3:05 PM with 4 comments

• by nikita on 4/28/2022, 12:00 PM with comments

• Why Lightspeed invested in ClickHouse: a database built for speed

  by nikita on 10/28/2021, 3:50 PM with comments

• Solana Labs completes a $314M private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz

  by nikita on 6/13/2021, 9:39 PM with 337 comments

• Silicon Valley loses another tech icon

  by nikita on 11/17/2020, 8:11 PM with 0 comments

• Ways to Compute Pi in SQL

  by nikita on 3/14/2020, 6:42 PM with 0 comments

• A Bunch of Money on AWS and Some Benchmark Results

  by nikita on 5/14/2019, 3:54 PM with 39 comments

• MemSQL brings free tier: Transactions for nothing, and faster queries for free

  by nikita on 11/6/2018, 4:44 PM with comments

• Real-time sentiment analysis of election tweets

  by nikita on 11/8/2016, 5:38 PM with 0 comments

• Real-time sentiment analysis of the debate

  by nikita on 10/20/2016, 12:59 AM with 1 comments

• Code Generation: The Inner Sanctum of Database Performance

  by nikita on 9/7/2016, 4:52 PM with 0 comments

• New Reference Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics

  by nikita on 8/11/2016, 8:02 PM with 0 comments

• MemSQL 5 Ships with LLVM-Based Code Generation for SQL Queries

  by nikita on 3/30/2016, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• Shaping Big Data Through Constraints Analysis

  by nikita on 5/12/2015, 5:05 PM with 0 comments

• Fast Overlap Ad Targeting Over 200Bln Data Points

  by nikita on 4/14/2015, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• Turn Up the Volume with High-Speed Counters

  by nikita on 3/24/2015, 4:20 PM with 1 comments

• by nikita on 12/30/2014, 5:55 PM with comments

• by nikita on 12/30/2014, 5:45 PM with comments

• The Auto Macro: A Clean Approach to C++ Error Handling

  by nikita on 9/16/2014, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• Announcing MemSQL Start[c]UP 2.0

  by nikita on 7/21/2014, 6:12 PM with 0 comments

• Standings in 38th Annual World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate

  by nikita on 6/25/2014, 5:08 AM with 17 comments

• Through a Table, Sparsely

  by nikita on 2/26/2014, 7:14 PM with 2 comments

• MemSQL throws a curve, adds column store on flash

  by nikita on 2/6/2014, 4:57 PM with 1 comments

• The current top 5 tech companies in SV with the hardest engineering interviews

  by nikita on 2/6/2014, 7:58 AM with 0 comments

• The Story Behind MemSQL’s Skiplist Indexes

  by nikita on 1/27/2014, 7:43 PM with 0 comments

• Unsexy Database Features That Matter: Part 1

  by nikita on 10/31/2013, 8:09 PM with 0 comments

• Oracle Announces an In-Memory Technology, At an Ungodly Speed And Cost

  by nikita on 9/24/2013, 12:41 AM with 27 comments

• MemSQL 2.1 Shipped

  by nikita on 7/10/2013, 6:13 PM with 0 comments

• ICPC World Finals

  by nikita on 7/3/2013, 5:44 PM with 0 comments

• Startup Engineers at Google Code Jam

  by nikita on 7/2/2013, 8:37 PM with 0 comments

• Being a Startup Chef

  by nikita on 7/2/2013, 7:07 PM with 0 comments

• Announcing start[c]up

  by nikita on 6/20/2013, 11:08 PM with 0 comments

• MemSQL ships 2.0, scales across hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores

  by nikita on 4/23/2013, 5:00 PM with 29 comments

• Practical Techniques to Achieve Quality in Large Software Projects

  by nikita on 4/10/2013, 6:11 PM with 24 comments

• Common Pitfalls in Writing Lock-Free Algorithms

  by nikita on 3/27/2013, 10:45 PM with 33 comments

• Competition programmers at work. One year history of working with top coders

  by nikita on 9/24/2012, 4:58 PM with 1 comments

• Reading Between the Benchmarks: How MemSQL Designs for Speed and Durability

  by nikita on 6/27/2012, 5:54 PM with 36 comments

• by nikita on 6/27/2012, 4:14 PM with comments

• YC W2011 Database Startup Seeking Co-founder

  by nikita on 12/30/2010, 10:19 AM with comments

• W11 Database Startup Looking for Third Cofounder || Employee #1

  by nikita on 12/25/2010, 2:49 AM with comments