Summary

Simon Hrup Eskildsen Blog About Napkin Math Books Subscribe AI Engineer The Pragmatic Engineer: Building turbopuffer Aug 2026 Cafe Cursor: Scaling Shopify, building turbopuffer, and the future of databases May 2026 Latent Space Podcast: Retrieval After RAG with Turbopuffer Mar 2026 CMU Database Seminar: turbopuffer, Object Storage-native Database for Search Mar 2026 The Database School Podcast: Faster vector search Nov 2025 Jason Liu Podcast: Billion-scale vector storage for RAG Nov 2025 The PMF Show: He built a new database in his bedroom Oct 2025 Software Engineering Daily: turbopuffer Sep 2025 Vector Podcast: Economical way of serving vector search workloads Sep 2025 Postgres FM: turbopuffer Sep 2025 Bessemer Podcast: Memory, evals, and efficient storage in AI systems Sep 2025 Barrchives Podcast: How to build 10x cheaper with object storage Aug 2025 Unsupervised Learning: Infrastructure powering top AI apps Jul 2025 Data Council Conference: Billion-scale vector search with Notion May 2025 The Geek Narrator Podcast: How do vector databases work Mar 2025 Podcast with Geek Narrator on Object Storage Databases Nov 2024 Every Podcast: How to use AI to become a learning machine Sep 2024 turbopuffer: fast search on object storage Jul 2024 Index Merges vs Composite Indexes in Postgres and MySQL Nov 2022 Scaling Causals Spreadsheet Engine from Thousands to Billions of Cells: From Maps to Arrays Jul 2022 Inteview on Data Engineering Podcast on Data Diff Jul 2022 Metrics For Your Web Applications Dashboards Mar 2022 Neural Network From Scratch Jan 2022 Careful Trading Complexity for Improvements Nov 2021 When To Write a Simulator Sep 2021 Increase HTTP Performance by Fitting In the Initial TCP Slow Start Window Jul 2021 Using checksums to verify syncing 100M database records Jan 2021 Filtering with Inverted Indexes Nov 2020 Recommendations Sep 2020 Podcast with Changelog on Napkin Math Sep 2020 Circuit Breakers Aug 2020 MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second Jul 2020 Pig Pit Jul 2020 Inverted Index Performance and Merkle Tree Syncronization Jun 2020 Adjacent Possible: Model for Peeking into the Future May 2020 Data Synchronization May 2020 Revision History Apr 2020 In-memory Search Mar 2020 Interview with Every.toSuperorganizers: How I Learn Mar 2020 Composite Primary Keys Feb 2020 How does progress1 work Jan 2020 Redis throughput Jan 2020 Membership Intersection Service Dec 2019 Expected Database Query Latency Nov 2019 Logging Cost Oct 2019 Talk at SRECON EU: Advanced Napkin Math: Estimating System Performance from First Principles Oct 2019 2018 Jan 2019 Podcast with The Kindle Chronicles Podcast about Reading Oct 2018 How I Read Jul 2018 Media Playlists Jun 2018 Positive Unknown-Unknowns Mar 2018 Peak Complexity Feb 2018 Podcast with Scale Your Code on Scaling Shopify, Round Two Jan 2018 2017 Dec 2017 Talk at GOTO Copenhagen: Shopifys Pods Architecture Oct 2017 Talk at Scale: Resiliency Testing with Toxiproxy Aug 2017 Shitty First Software Drafts Jun 2017 Talk at Railsconf: 5 Years of Rails Scaling to 80K RPS Apr 2017 What Happens To a Webserver When Clients Refresh Really Fast Feb 2017 Minimum Viable Airtable Feb 2017 2016 Jan 2017 Shitlist Driven Development Dec 2016 How I use Airtable Nov 2016 Talk at Full Stack Fest: Multi-DC Sep 2016 Employees Only Podcast Jul 2016 Mental Modeling Mar 2016 Talk at QCON Sao Paulo: Shopify at Scale Mar 2016 Talk at CUSEC: Reliable Software in a Chaotic World Jan 2016 2015 Jan 2016 Season Driven Cooking Dec 2015 Talk at Euruko: Super-Reliable Software Oct 2015 Podcast with Scale Your Code on Scaling Shopify and Running Docker in Production Sep 2015 Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production Jul 2015 Talk at Dockercon: Resilient Routing and Discovery Jun 2015 Talk at Goruco: Building and Testing Resilient Applications Jun 2015 Talk at GOTO Chicago: Patterns for Docker Success May 2015 Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Applications Jan 2015 Talk at DockerCon EU: From This-Looks-Fun to Production Dec 2014 Talk at DevOps Days Berlin: Docker at Shopify Oct 2014 Kafka Producer Pipeline for Ruby on Rails Jul 2014 Letterpress Cheater Algorithm Sep 2013 Unix Background Queue Sep 2013 Keeping it simple with Test::Unit Mar 2013 Why Im glad my iPhone broke Jan 2013 30 days of super productivity Jan 2013 Multitasking makes you dumb Nov 2012 My journey to the International Olympiad in Informatics Jun 2012 Stop relying on your ORM and learn SQL Mar 2011 Setting up Unicorn with Nginx Oct 2010 A simple Imgur Bash screenshot utility May 2010

Title

Simon Eskildsen

Description

Personal website and blog of Simon Hørup Eskildsen about napkin math, computers, books, ideas, and whatever else interests me.

Keywords

talk, database, storage, search, vector, scale, scaling, building, object, software, data, docker, napkin, math, databases, applications, performance

Downstreams

twitter.com, github.com, linkedin.com, youtube.com, latent.space, softwareengineeringdaily.com, every.to, shopify.engineering, vimeo.com

NS Lookup

A 66.33.60.34, A 76.76.21.164

Dates

Created 2026-09-21

Updated 2026-09-21

Summarized 2026-09-21