@AravSrinivas: We built a replacement for AWS DynamoDB, a key-value database for fast web content fetches. This was done with two engi…
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Perplexity announced CobbleDB, a key-value database built as a replacement for AWS DynamoDB, using two engineers and hundreds of AI agents, with potential annual savings of $100 million.
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We built a replacement for AWS DynamoDB, a key-value database for fast web content fetches. This was done with two engineers and hundreds of persistent Computer agents over two months. Migrating to our in-house database will save us up to a hundred million dollars yearly.
Internal use for now. Our needs are unique, considering we have a web index of half a trillion pages now.
Considering it
Not current spend. But will get up to there as agents start using the index far more than humans in long running and repetitive research tasks
please open source alongwith tooling, this will help the whole community @AravSrinivas
Nice!! Congrats @AravSrinivas Hope they are 2 tenured ex-Amazonians from DynamoDB team who were let go in the name of AI! Also, Reminded me of Elon’s tweet today about “The Machine Stops.” Guess this is the time for everyone to Hire Engineers start building in-house. Good Luck’
This is the most significant news I’ve heard this year. I want to extend my heartfelt congratulations to your team! Is it possible to share the setup of how they accomplished this for the community? @AravSrinivas
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