Natalie Vais
@nvais.bsky.social
gp at spark capital ✨ databases, infra, dev tools
Reposted by Natalie Vais
Excited to announce the TigerBeetle 1000x World Tour!
13 Cities in 6 Days, December 1-6
From AMS, BLR and CPT to VIE—join us!
tigerbeetle.com/event/1000x
13 Cities in 6 Days, December 1-6
From AMS, BLR and CPT to VIE—join us!
tigerbeetle.com/event/1000x
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Excited to announce the TigerBeetle 1000x World Tour!
13 Cities in 6 Days, December 1-6
From AMS, BLR and CPT to VIE—join us!
tigerbeetle.com/event/1000x
13 Cities in 6 Days, December 1-6
From AMS, BLR and CPT to VIE—join us!
tigerbeetle.com/event/1000x
Reposted by Natalie Vais
October in TigerLand is out!
- TigerBeetle’s Write Ahead Log utilization is doubled!
- The first Table Mountain Database Management Seminar in Cape Town
- @synadia.bsky.social, TigerBeetle pledge $512K over two years to the Zig Software Foundation @ziglang.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/tigerbeetle/...
- TigerBeetle’s Write Ahead Log utilization is doubled!
- The first Table Mountain Database Management Seminar in Cape Town
- @synadia.bsky.social, TigerBeetle pledge $512K over two years to the Zig Software Foundation @ziglang.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/tigerbeetle/...
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
October in TigerLand is out!
- TigerBeetle’s Write Ahead Log utilization is doubled!
- The first Table Mountain Database Management Seminar in Cape Town
- @synadia.bsky.social, TigerBeetle pledge $512K over two years to the Zig Software Foundation @ziglang.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/tigerbeetle/...
- TigerBeetle’s Write Ahead Log utilization is doubled!
- The first Table Mountain Database Management Seminar in Cape Town
- @synadia.bsky.social, TigerBeetle pledge $512K over two years to the Zig Software Foundation @ziglang.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/tigerbeetle/...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
Ever wondered how your browser devtools jumps from bundle.min.js:1:27698 → src/index.ts:73:16? 🧊
We unpack the internals of JS Source Maps: Base64 VLQ encoding, mapping deltas, and how your original TS code gets reconstructed from minified bundles.
🔗 www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
We unpack the internals of JS Source Maps: Base64 VLQ encoding, mapping deltas, and how your original TS code gets reconstructed from minified bundles.
🔗 www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps
A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.
www.polarsignals.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Ever wondered how your browser devtools jumps from bundle.min.js:1:27698 → src/index.ts:73:16? 🧊
We unpack the internals of JS Source Maps: Base64 VLQ encoding, mapping deltas, and how your original TS code gets reconstructed from minified bundles.
🔗 www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
We unpack the internals of JS Source Maps: Base64 VLQ encoding, mapping deltas, and how your original TS code gets reconstructed from minified bundles.
🔗 www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
Peter Boncz's Vineyard Lecture:
- A brief history of the gains unlocked by generalization of compute
- The temptation towards specialization and a new era of GPUs
- What this means for DBMS design and embedded programming style
#TMDBMS
- A brief history of the gains unlocked by generalization of compute
- The temptation towards specialization and a new era of GPUs
- What this means for DBMS design and embedded programming style
#TMDBMS
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Peter Boncz's Vineyard Lecture:
- A brief history of the gains unlocked by generalization of compute
- The temptation towards specialization and a new era of GPUs
- What this means for DBMS design and embedded programming style
#TMDBMS
- A brief history of the gains unlocked by generalization of compute
- The temptation towards specialization and a new era of GPUs
- What this means for DBMS design and embedded programming style
#TMDBMS
Reposted by Natalie Vais
Philippe Bonnet's Poolside Lecture:
- NVMe SSDs today: high write amplification, spiky latency, weak guarantees
- Mismatched out-of-place internal writes and in-place block device interface
- The future: programmable, internals tuned for custom NVMe commands
#TMDBMS
- NVMe SSDs today: high write amplification, spiky latency, weak guarantees
- Mismatched out-of-place internal writes and in-place block device interface
- The future: programmable, internals tuned for custom NVMe commands
#TMDBMS
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Philippe Bonnet's Poolside Lecture:
- NVMe SSDs today: high write amplification, spiky latency, weak guarantees
- Mismatched out-of-place internal writes and in-place block device interface
- The future: programmable, internals tuned for custom NVMe commands
#TMDBMS
- NVMe SSDs today: high write amplification, spiky latency, weak guarantees
- Mismatched out-of-place internal writes and in-place block device interface
- The future: programmable, internals tuned for custom NVMe commands
#TMDBMS
Reposted by Natalie Vais
Tigris Data is proud to sponsor #RaySummit, where the next generation of AI is being built! Come meet the Tigris team and let’s talk object storage for agents, pipelines, and experimentation— the storage layer that scales with you!
📍 Marquis Marriott in SF today & tomorrow!
📍 Marquis Marriott in SF today & tomorrow!
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Tigris Data is proud to sponsor #RaySummit, where the next generation of AI is being built! Come meet the Tigris team and let’s talk object storage for agents, pipelines, and experimentation— the storage layer that scales with you!
📍 Marquis Marriott in SF today & tomorrow!
📍 Marquis Marriott in SF today & tomorrow!
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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...
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
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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...
Learn how every agent gets an instant, isolated sandbox to test, iterate, and scale without conflicts.
www.tigrisdata.com/blog/build-a...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
I had a great time talking about GPU profiling at Ubuntu Summit! Thanks everyone for joining!
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I had a great time talking about GPU profiling at Ubuntu Summit! Thanks everyone for joining!
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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!
As always, zero-instrumentation and powered by #eBPF!
🚀 We're super excited to launch NVIDIA CUDA Profiling today! Check out the blog on how we made it happen! 🧊
www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
Continuous NVIDIA CUDA Profiling In Production
Low-Overhead Profiling of GPUs with USDT Probes and eBPF
www.polarsignals.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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!
As always, zero-instrumentation and powered by #eBPF!
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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!
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!
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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
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
October 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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
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
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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.
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.
September 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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.
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 🙂
- 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 🙂
September 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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 🙂
- 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 🙂
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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 🤣
ventureinsecurity.net/p/the-unbund...
I hope you love some red string diagrams 🤣
ventureinsecurity.net/p/the-unbund...
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
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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 🤣
ventureinsecurity.net/p/the-unbund...
I hope you love some red string diagrams 🤣
ventureinsecurity.net/p/the-unbund...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
"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...
#SD25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8F...
The Making of Systems Distributed
YouTube video by TigerBeetle
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"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...
#SD25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8F...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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
1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance
@joran.tigerbeetle.com
10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET
August 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance
@joran.tigerbeetle.com
10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET
Reposted by Natalie Vais
Time flies, when you are
Powering OLTP—
TigerBeetle, three!
Powering OLTP—
TigerBeetle, three!
August 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Time flies, when you are
Powering OLTP—
TigerBeetle, three!
Powering OLTP—
TigerBeetle, three!
Reposted by Natalie Vais
Code Review Can Be Better
Thoughts on code review, and our recent experiment, which we decided to shelve, at least for the time being.
tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08...
Thoughts on code review, and our recent experiment, which we decided to shelve, at least for the time being.
tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08...
Code Review Can Be Better
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
tigerbeetle.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Code Review Can Be Better
Thoughts on code review, and our recent experiment, which we decided to shelve, at least for the time being.
tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08...
Thoughts on code review, and our recent experiment, which we decided to shelve, at least for the time being.
tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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...
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...
August 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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.
August 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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.
Reposted by Natalie Vais
TripleZip (YC W25), now processing commercial rent transactions with TigerBeetle.
Congrats, Grayson and Yash, on going into production! We're cheering for you.
Congrats, Grayson and Yash, on going into production! We're cheering for you.
August 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
TripleZip (YC W25), now processing commercial rent transactions with TigerBeetle.
Congrats, Grayson and Yash, on going into production! We're cheering for you.
Congrats, Grayson and Yash, on going into production! We're cheering for you.
Reposted by Natalie Vais
Vortex is incredibly exciting, we’ve already made plans months ago to make it the primary format we will be storing our data in on object storage! www.linuxfoundation.org/press/lf-ai-...
LF AI & Data Foundation Hosts Vortex Project to Power High Performance Data Access for AI and Analytics
Contributed by SpiralDB, Vortex is an extensible, next-generation columnar storage format designed for building high-performance, future-proof data systems
www.linuxfoundation.org
August 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Vortex is incredibly exciting, we’ve already made plans months ago to make it the primary format we will be storing our data in on object storage! www.linuxfoundation.org/press/lf-ai-...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
#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...
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...
August 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#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...
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...
Reposted by Natalie Vais
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. 🧵
We chased every incident, fixed every user-reported bug, and made unglamorous work our priority. 🧵
August 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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. 🧵
We chased every incident, fixed every user-reported bug, and made unglamorous work our priority. 🧵
Reposted by Natalie Vais
TanStack DB is now in BETA!
We’ve been working on TanStack DB, an embedded, reactive client database for TanStack Query, and are proud to announce today that with the 0.1 release that it's now in BETA!
tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...
We’ve been working on TanStack DB, an embedded, reactive client database for TanStack Query, and are proud to announce today that with the 0.1 release that it's now in BETA!
tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...
Stop Re-Rendering — TanStack DB, the Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query | TanStack Blog
Your React dashboard shouldn't grind to a halt just because one TODO turns from ☐ to ☑. Yet every optimistic update still kicks off a cascade of re-renders, filters, useMemos and spinner flashes. If y...
tanstack.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
TanStack DB is now in BETA!
We’ve been working on TanStack DB, an embedded, reactive client database for TanStack Query, and are proud to announce today that with the 0.1 release that it's now in BETA!
tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...
We’ve been working on TanStack DB, an embedded, reactive client database for TanStack Query, and are proud to announce today that with the 0.1 release that it's now in BETA!
tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...