Ever wondered why the founder of @turbopuffer (that is @Sirupsen) was up to 12-16 years ago, when he was getting started in the industry?

He kept a blog, so you can read it! 2010-2014:

One reason to start a blog btw.

https://t.co/bZdti3FLmO https://t.co/Pstjtj7ZqP

Simon Eskildsen

Source: https://sirupsen.com/

• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksLatent Space Podcast: Retrieval After RAG with Turbopuffer Mar 2026
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksCMU Database Seminar: turbopuffer, Object Storage-native Database for Search Mar 2026
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksThe Database School Podcast: Faster vector search Nov 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksJason Liu Podcast: Billion-scale vector storage for RAG Nov 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksThe PMF Show: He built a new database in his bedroom Oct 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksSoftware Engineering Daily: turbopuffer Sep 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksVector Podcast: Economical way of serving vector search workloads Sep 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksPostgres FM: turbopuffer Sep 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksBessemer Podcast: Memory, evals, and efficient storage in AI systems Sep 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksBarrchives Podcast: How to build 10x cheaper with object storage Aug 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksUnsupervised Learning: Infrastructure powering top AI apps Jul 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksData Council Conference: Billion-scale vector search with Notion May 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksThe Geek Narrator Podcast: How do vector databases work? Mar 2025
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksPodcast with Geek Narrator on Object Storage Databases Nov 2024
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksEvery Podcast: How to use AI to become a learning machine Sep 2024
• turbopuffer: fast search on object storage Jul 2024
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeNov 2022
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeJul 2022
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksInteview on Data Engineering Podcast on Data Diff Jul 2022
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeMar 2022
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeJan 2022
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeNov 2021
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeSep 2021
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeJul 2021
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeJan 2021
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeNov 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeSep 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksPodcast with Changelog on Napkin Math Sep 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeAug 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeJul 2020
• Pig Pit Jul 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeJun 2020
• May 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeMay 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeApr 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeMar 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksInterview with Every.to/Superorganizers: How I Learn Mar 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeFeb 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeJan 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeJan 2020
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeDec 2019
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeNov 2019
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeOct 2019
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at SRECON EU: Advanced Napkin Math: Estimating System Performance from First Principles Oct 2019
• Jan 2019
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksPodcast with The Kindle Chronicles Podcast about Reading Oct 2018
• Jul 2018
• Jun 2018
• Mar 2018
• Feb 2018
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksPodcast with Scale Your Code on Scaling Shopify, Round Two Jan 2018
• Dec 2017
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at GOTO Copenhagen: Shopify’s Pods Architecture Oct 2017
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at @Scale: Resiliency Testing with Toxiproxy Aug 2017
• Jun 2017
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at Railsconf: 5 Years of Rails Scaling to 80K RPS Apr 2017
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeWhat Happens To a Webserver When Clients Refresh Really Fast? Feb 2017
• Feb 2017
• Jan 2017
• Dec 2016
• Nov 2016
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at Full Stack Fest: Multi-DC Sep 2016
• Jul 2016
• Mar 2016
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at QCON Sao Paulo: Shopify at Scale Mar 2016
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at CUSEC: Reliable Software in a Chaotic World Jan 2016
• Jan 2016
• Dec 2015
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at Euruko: Super-Reliable Software Oct 2015
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksPodcast with Scale Your Code on Scaling Shopify and Running Docker in Production Sep 2015
• Jul 2015
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at Dockercon: Resilient Routing and Discovery Jun 2015
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at Goruco: Building and Testing Resilient Applications Jun 2015
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at GOTO Chicago: Patterns for Docker Success May 2015
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeBuilding and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Applications Jan 2015
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at DockerCon EU: From This-Looks-Fun to Production Dec 2014
• https://sirupsen.com/category/talksTalk at DevOps Days Berlin: Docker at Shopify Oct 2014
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeKafka Producer Pipeline for Ruby on Rails Jul 2014
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeSep 2013
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeSep 2013
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeMar 2013
• Jan 2013
• Jan 2013
• Nov 2012
• Jun 2012
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeMar 2011
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeOct 2010
• https://sirupsen.com/category/codeMay 2010