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Database School

Building serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon Eskildsen

· 1 h 6 min · Episode 26

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In this episode, Aaron Francis talks with Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, about building a high-performance search engine and database that runs entirely on object storage. They dive deep on Simon's time as an engineer at Shopify, database design trade-offs, and how TurboPuffer powers modern AI workloads like Cursor and Notion.
Follow Simon:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sirupsen
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sirupsen
Turbopuffer: https://turbopuffer.com
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Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis
Database School: https://databaseschool.com
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