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Natalie Vais
@nvais.bsky.social
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gp at spark capital ✨ databases, infra, dev tools
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We built bucket forking so agents can safely use tools and run experiments without corrupting shared environments, especially when running in parallel.

Learn how every agent gets an instant, isolated sandbox to test, iterate, and scale without conflicts.

www.tigrisdata.com/blog/build-a...
Build better AI agents with bucket forking | Tigris Object Storage
Prevent rogue agent behavior by giving every agent an instant, isolated bucket fork—no data duplication, safe concurrency, and easy rollback with snapshots.
www.tigrisdata.com
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I had a great time talking about GPU profiling at Ubuntu Summit! Thanks everyone for joining!
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I could not be more excited about this. To our knowledge, the world's first open-source low-overhead always-on GPU profiler!

As always, zero-instrumentation and powered by #eBPF!
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Will we see you at #PyTorchCon, Oct 22-23 in San Francisco?

Here are the five talks Tigris is most looking forward to, each one showcasing performance optimizations for AI workloads.

See all these and more, and come chat with Tigris about how we're building the storage layer for AI!
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Big news! @tigrisdata.com raised $25M Series A led by Natalie Vais of Spark Capital w/ Martin Casado of a16z + Basis Set.

Tigris is a faster, freer, AI-native storage cloud– running on our own hardware.

Already powering fal.ai, krea.ai & Hedra.

Let’s build the open cloud for AI.

Read more on TC
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TigerBeetle at the New York Stock Exchange!

Last night, a panel and networking with @redpanda.com at 1792; this morning, a studio session with theCUBE.

Times we'll remember, together building the future of transaction processing.
Summer of OLTP continues...
- databricks acquires neon for $1B
- snowflake acquires @crunchydata.com for $250M
- mariaDB (re)acquires @skysql.bsky.social
- temporal acquires crystaldba
- vector (PE firm) buys @singlestore.com
- @supabase.com raising at $5B

turns out everyone needs txns 🙂
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Wrote up some thoughts for how Okta is getting squeezed from all sides: squished by Rippling at the bottom, Msft at the top, and other markets and startups in the middle.
I hope you love some red string diagrams 🤣
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The unbundling of Okta: are startups chipping away at Okta?
A guest post from Maya Kaczorowski who breaks down Okta’s competition and how Okta is not being unbundled, but rather squeezed from all sides.
ventureinsecurity.net
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"The best software is more than a program. It’s a relationship. Between the makers and the users."

#SD25

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8F...
The Making of Systems Distributed
YouTube video by TigerBeetle
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Join us tomorrow for the finalé of #SD25

1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance
@joran.tigerbeetle.com

10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET
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Time flies, when you are
Powering OLTP—
TigerBeetle, three!
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Tomorrow, the premiere of this year's Lightning Talks at Systems Distributed!

Hosted by @nvais.bsky.social, five speakers selected on Day 1 took to the stage on Day 2, in a race against the gong...

Join them on YT tomorrow, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET

youtube.com/watch?v=k58v...
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One day boutique conference for the sync era of the web. Hear from the world's top builders about how to develop systems in the era of agentic software and real-time sync.
Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.
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TripleZip (YC W25), now processing commercial rent transactions with TigerBeetle.

Congrats, Grayson and Yash, on going into production! We're cheering for you.
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#SD25 online continues tomorrow!

Join Cpt. @hannes.muehleisen.org for his talk on DuckLake

Aug 4 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQEU...
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ElectricSQL recently completed a 120-day reliability sprint. Our one goal: make our sync engine so boring-reliable you stop thinking about it and just build.

We chased every incident, fixed every user-reported bug, and made unglamorous work our priority. 🧵
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Tanstack DB is a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync.

Based on a TypeScript implementation of differential dataflow, it's type-safe, declarative, incrementally adoptable and insanely fast.
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A much requested feature finally shipping! Now you can finally understand why your process is taken off the CPU, whether for timing reasons, for I/O reasons, or any of the many other possibilities!
🚀 Today, we're excited to launch Off-CPU profiling! Check out our blog on what we needed to do to make it most useful and how you can get started with it! 🧊

www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
Introducing Off-CPU Profiling
How Off-CPU profiling works and how to get the most out of it
www.polarsignals.com
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Coming soon to a screen near you...
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🔥 Have you ever stared at a flame graph wondering why your app is slow?

Using the new @PolarSignalsIO MCP, you can now ask "Why is my service slow?" and e.g. @anthropic.com's Claude Code or @cursor.com.web.brid.gy will analyze your production profiles and suggest code fixes.
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📔Writing our Rust database from scratch gave us a golden opportunity to implement deterministic simulation testing as a core feature. Learn about the architecture that gives us full control over DST ingredients. 🧊

www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater Of State Machines
How we designed our database for complete control over concurrency, time, randomness, and failure injection.
www.polarsignals.com