Philippe Noël
@philippemnoel.bsky.social
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At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.
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-...
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
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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-...
www.honest-broker.com/p/my-8-best-...
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.
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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.
Couldn't agree more. This is also what we're seeing at ParadeDB
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
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Couldn't agree more. This is also what we're seeing at ParadeDB
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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
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
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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
In case you're curious about the project's origin story: dev.to/floord/they-... #Postgres #Kubernetes
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...
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
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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...
www.tinybird.co/blog/clickho...
Learning SEO optimization is kinda fun
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Learning SEO optimization is kinda fun
I'm at PGConf EU in Riga this week. If you're around, come say hi!
October 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I'm at PGConf EU in Riga this week. If you're around, come say hi!
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?
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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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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.
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
September 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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.
There are a lot of cases (e.g. fintech) where strong consistency and durability is a big deal for search.
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...
- 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
September 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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...
- www.nuget.org/packages/EFC...
- github.com/nandor23/EFC...
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!
We've revamping our tokenizers and will fix this emoji tokenization issue. Thanks Franck!
September 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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!
We've revamping our tokenizers and will fix this emoji tokenization issue. Thanks Franck!
Is it just me or the new macOS Liquid GLass Spotlight is kinda laggy... Ugh (On M3 MacBook Air)
September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Is it just me or the new macOS Liquid GLass Spotlight is kinda laggy... Ugh (On M3 MacBook Air)
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
September 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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...
We're writing again! We've got a series of exciting articles coming up, with the first one: Elasticsearch Was Never a Database
Elasticsearch is an amazing product. Really. But it's not a transactional database. Yet because of how painful sync-ing it with Postgres is, many try to. Read on:
Elasticsearch is an amazing product. Really. But it's not a transactional database. Yet because of how painful sync-ing it with Postgres is, many try to. Read on:
People who use Elasticsearch fall into two camps: those who know it shouldn’t be used as a source of truth, and those who haven’t thought it through…
Seriously though, if you use Elastic as a database, we’d love to hear about it.
www.paradedb.com/blog/elastic...
#elasticsearch #database #search
Seriously though, if you use Elastic as a database, we’d love to hear about it.
www.paradedb.com/blog/elastic...
#elasticsearch #database #search
ParadeDB
The Transactional Elasticsearch Alternative
www.paradedb.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We're writing again! We've got a series of exciting articles coming up, with the first one: Elasticsearch Was Never a Database
Elasticsearch is an amazing product. Really. But it's not a transactional database. Yet because of how painful sync-ing it with Postgres is, many try to. Read on:
Elasticsearch is an amazing product. Really. But it's not a transactional database. Yet because of how painful sync-ing it with Postgres is, many try to. Read on:
Interesting article on narrowing the use case to find PMF: medium.com/craft-ventur...
The Sharp Startup: When PayPal Found Product-Market Fit
Reflections on the 20th anniversary of a $100+ billion product
medium.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Interesting article on narrowing the use case to find PMF: medium.com/craft-ventur...
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⚡️ Lightning Talk @ #KubeCon: CloudNativePG: Running Postgres the Kubernetes Way
📅 Mon, Nov 10 | 🕓 4:12–4:17pm EST
👤 Gabriele Bartolini, Maintainer
Discover why CloudNativePG—the only CNCF project dedicated to Postgres—brings production-grade, cloud-native Postgres to Kubernetes. 🚀
sched.co/27d5y
📅 Mon, Nov 10 | 🕓 4:12–4:17pm EST
👤 Gabriele Bartolini, Maintainer
Discover why CloudNativePG—the only CNCF project dedicated to Postgres—brings production-grade, cloud-native Postgres to Kubernetes. 🚀
sched.co/27d5y
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: Project Lightning Talk: CloudNativePG: R...
View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
sched.co
August 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
⚡️ Lightning Talk @ #KubeCon: CloudNativePG: Running Postgres the Kubernetes Way
📅 Mon, Nov 10 | 🕓 4:12–4:17pm EST
👤 Gabriele Bartolini, Maintainer
Discover why CloudNativePG—the only CNCF project dedicated to Postgres—brings production-grade, cloud-native Postgres to Kubernetes. 🚀
sched.co/27d5y
📅 Mon, Nov 10 | 🕓 4:12–4:17pm EST
👤 Gabriele Bartolini, Maintainer
Discover why CloudNativePG—the only CNCF project dedicated to Postgres—brings production-grade, cloud-native Postgres to Kubernetes. 🚀
sched.co/27d5y
1/3. ETL: no company's favorite tool, every company's necessary evil.
Synchronizing Postgres to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is an incredibly common workflow, usually via an ETL tool like Kafka+Debezium.
But what if you had another option?
Synchronizing Postgres to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is an incredibly common workflow, usually via an ETL tool like Kafka+Debezium.
But what if you had another option?
We’ve worked with 50+ companies syncing Postgres with non-Postgres sinks like Elasticsearch. Our latest post is a deep dive into how Postgres → Postgres differs from Postgres → anything else.
www.paradedb.com/blog/etl_vs_...
www.paradedb.com/blog/etl_vs_...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
www.paradedb.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
1/3. ETL: no company's favorite tool, every company's necessary evil.
Synchronizing Postgres to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is an incredibly common workflow, usually via an ETL tool like Kafka+Debezium.
But what if you had another option?
Synchronizing Postgres to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is an incredibly common workflow, usually via an ETL tool like Kafka+Debezium.
But what if you had another option?
A great blog post by the folks at Feldera on testing a strongly-consistent, core infrastructure system. We use many of the same ideas at ParadeDB (especially proptesting): www.feldera.com/blog/correct...
Correctness at Feldera
In this blog post, we briefly describe our efforts and development processes that ensure Feldera's engine is correct.
www.feldera.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A great blog post by the folks at Feldera on testing a strongly-consistent, core infrastructure system. We use many of the same ideas at ParadeDB (especially proptesting): www.feldera.com/blog/correct...
I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve thinking about the new people that are joining us at ParadeDB next week. Stay tuned 🤩
August 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve thinking about the new people that are joining us at ParadeDB next week. Stay tuned 🤩
"A normalized data model allowed us to have a 10x reduction in write workload compared to the denormalized data model that we had to use in Elasticsearch. This led to substantial savings on storage and indexing."
Why Instacart picked Postgres for search: tech.instacart.com/how-instacar...
Why Instacart picked Postgres for search: tech.instacart.com/how-instacar...
How Instacart Built a Modern Search Infrastructure on Postgres
Ankit Mittal, Vinesh Gudla, Guanghua Shu, Akshay Nair, Tejaswi Tenneti, Andrew Tanner
tech.instacart.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"A normalized data model allowed us to have a 10x reduction in write workload compared to the denormalized data model that we had to use in Elasticsearch. This led to substantial savings on storage and indexing."
Why Instacart picked Postgres for search: tech.instacart.com/how-instacar...
Why Instacart picked Postgres for search: tech.instacart.com/how-instacar...
ParadeDB just reached 70 contributors. I spent some time reflecting on what brings people to contribute to open-source projects. Lmk what you think:
philippemnoel.posthaven.com/community-co...
philippemnoel.posthaven.com/community-co...
Community Contributions
I used to believe that solving hard technical challenges was the most rewarding part of building a technical product. As satisfying as that is, I may have found something even more fulfilling:...
philippemnoel.posthaven.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
ParadeDB just reached 70 contributors. I spent some time reflecting on what brings people to contribute to open-source projects. Lmk what you think:
philippemnoel.posthaven.com/community-co...
philippemnoel.posthaven.com/community-co...
July 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
1/4. I'm incredibly excited for this case study to come out. The @paradedb and @BiltRewards teams have been working together to take Bilt's user-facing search experience to the next level, all without the cumbersome infrastructure of a bespoke search database.
We're proud to be partnering with Bilt to improve the member search experience with minimal infrastructure overhead.
www.paradedb.com/blog/case_st...
www.paradedb.com/blog/case_st...
ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
www.paradedb.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
1/4. I'm incredibly excited for this case study to come out. The @paradedb and @BiltRewards teams have been working together to take Bilt's user-facing search experience to the next level, all without the cumbersome infrastructure of a bespoke search database.
ParadeDB transactions-per-second (TPS) 3x-ing in the upcoming release 👀
July 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
ParadeDB transactions-per-second (TPS) 3x-ing in the upcoming release 👀