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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 1d

nice post :)

Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 2d

This morning, I found myself re-reading this article by The Honest Broker on evaluating character. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend you do. It's an incredibly distilled set of principles that has benefited me immensely in life. Intemporal advice.

www.honest-broker.com/p/my-8-best-...

My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character

These methods have helped me enormously—and can save you much heartache and anxiety

www.honest-broker.com

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 3d

Classic

Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 3d

I saw this on LinkedIn and it was just too accurate to not share here. Postgres powers so much of the world's software yet the core team is a couple dozen people. The ecosystem around it is also surprisingly small for how far reaching it is.

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 7d

Couldn't agree more. This is also what we're seeing at ParadeDB

Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 8d

A trend towards pointing LLM/agents to simple search tools (BM25 keyword search or even grep) rather then giving them super complicated 'thick search stacks' (vector or hybrid search). Idea is the LLM can work like a human & try to understand how to use them softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/09...

Agents turn simple keyword search into compelling search experiences

Agents need tools they understand, like simple keyword search. They can reason about these tools, evaluate the results, refine, and iterate to deliver rather...

softwaredoug.com

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CloudNativePG @cloudnativepg.bsky.social · 7d

Floor Drees summarized the talk she gave a PGConf EU with CloudNativePG maintainer Gabriele Bartolini last week, titled "They grow up so fast: donating your open source project to a foundation".

In case you're curious about the project's origin story: dev.to/floord/they-... #Postgres #Kubernetes

They grow up so fast: donating your open source project to a foundation (or: the CloudNativePG story)

The first commit to the CloudNativePG project was made in February 2020. Just two years later, EDB...

dev.to

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 8d

The conclusions aren't all 100% right here, but I was quite surprised to see us picked up by Tinybird. Must be doing something right

www.tinybird.co/blog/clickho...

ClickHouse® vs ParadeDB: Can the parade keep up?

Compare ClickHouse vs ParadeDB for analytics workloads: architecture differences, performance benchmarks, scaling capabilities, and migration guidance.

www.tinybird.co

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 9d

Learning SEO optimization is kinda fun

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 13d

I'm at PGConf EU in Riga this week. If you're around, come say hi!

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 28d

All good, I think we're still a step before doing that

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 28d

I'm interested in hiring an "SEO consultant" to come in, evaluate our SEO posture and make a list of recommendations for what to improve next. Got anyone to recommend?

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Chris @chris.blue · Sep 30

Had a few folks ask why you'd need ACID for search. This @paradedb.bsky.social article from @philippemnoel.bsky.social and company does a decent job making the case.

There are a lot of cases (e.g. fintech) where strong consistency and durability is a big deal for search.

ParadeDB

The Transactional Elasticsearch Alternative Built on Postgres

www.paradedb.com

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 29

no clue

Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 26

There's a ParadeDB pg_search package for the .NET! Kudos to Nandor on this one. Source and package manager links:

- www.nuget.org/packages/EFC...
- github.com/nandor23/EFC...

EFCore.ParadeDB.PgSearch 0.1.0

EFCore.ParadeDB.PgSearch adds ParadeDB's pg_search extension support to Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL. Exposes ParadeDB search functions through EF.Functions API for LINQ-based full-text searc...

www.nuget.org

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 23

I just try not to run too many apps at the same time now :(

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 22

So annoying. Need the next update to fix this haha

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 22

An excellent, to-the-point blog post. One architecture difference to note is that MongoDB Search runs outside of the main MongoDB process, while in ParadeDB it runs inside.

We've revamping our tokenizers and will fix this emoji tokenization issue. Thanks Franck!

Franck Pachot @franckpachot.bsky.social · Sep 19

Comparing 🍏 to 🍊, and MongoDB to PostgreSQL, with full-text search indexes

dev.to/franckpachot...

Text Search with MongoDB and PostgreSQL

MongoDB Search Indexes provide full‑text search capabilities directly within MongoDB, allowing...

dev.to

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 22

Is it just me or the new macOS Liquid GLass Spotlight is kinda laggy... Ugh (On M3 MacBook Air)

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 21

A fantastic podcast by our engineer, Ankit Mittal, on how Instacart built search on Postgres, where the future of search infrastructure is going, and why that led him to join us at ParadeDB: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohp...

Postgres vs. Elasticsearch: Instacart’s Unexpected Winner in High-Stakes Search with Ankit Mittal

YouTube video by The Data Engineering Show - Podcast

www.youtube.com

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 20

What is your take on Elasticsearch shipping a SQL interface?

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 20

I'm not as familiar with this use case, but I don't see how this couldn't be declared as SQL.

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 20

We came up with this categorization internally:

- real-time search (e.g. dashboards, SaaS search boxes)
- observability
- RAG/GenAI

Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 20

Instacart can know this because they have recommender systems trained on what this user might want.

But I don't think all search use cases need this. I suspect AI-search use cases will to a lesser extent, but that it'll be beneficial for them. That's more likely to be an area we optimize around.

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 20

By arbitrary, you mean custom code / ML models? I think these matter a lot in a use case like e-commerce where a lot of domain knowledge and user-specific knowledge is applied. For example, an Instacart user might type "banana" but they want "banana yogurt" rather than "bananas".

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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · Sep 20

I think it's important to define the use cases well. ParadeDB is not focusing on e-commerce, and so we have a lower emphasis on re-ranking. Elastic has good capabilities there since they are so broad they target pretty much all search use cases.

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