Big news! @tigrisdata.com raised $25M Series A led by Natalie Vais of Spark Capital w/ Martin Casado of a16z + Basis Set. Tigris is a faster, freer, AI-native storage cloud– running on our own hardware. Already powering fal.ai, krea.ai & Hedra. Let’s build the open cloud for AI. Read more on TC

Integrating WarpStream with Tigris creates an endless, resilient, and globally responsive messaging system. Place your data producers and consumers anywhere on planet Earth for swift and reliable performance. Just add data! Learn more at www.warpstream.com/blog/getting...

We’re having some great conversations about object storage, and learning about what other folks are building. Stop by booth F635 to get in on these convos and see how Tigris can help you build and ship faster. #DataAISummit

Lifecycle rules: A look at what I've been working on at Tigris over the last few months. Its been really fun with a lot edge cases and weird scenarios to consider. www.tigrisdata.com/blog/lifecyc...

Finding the Joy: How AI Helped Us Capture 25 Good Vibes for 2025 shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/finding-th...

Shelley Tonkin Smith took my photos of otters and wrote an awesome blog post How AI Turns Photos into Nature Lessons 🦦 Link: shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/beyond-the... #ai #photos #canon

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Well not always. I wrote a post about using AI to transform a phrase using different tones. open.substack.com/pub/shelleyt...

How do large language models get so large? Let's dig in: https://buff.ly/3Ctofmo

Foundations of Large language models arxiv.org/abs/2501.09223 For those looking for a deep dive into LLM's

Turning learning into a Video Project shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/turn-learn...

S3 (Iceberg) Tables is everything I dreamt of, and more. I blogged some long-form thoughts: meltware.com/2024/12/04/s... I think we're about to see an explosion of data tools (@materialize.com, @clickhouse.com, @duckdb.org, et al.) learn to write Iceberg tables via S3 table buckets. #databs

What is (so special about) Learning in Depth? shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/what-is-so...

New blog post on the fun new hardware advancements which databases can leverage for great gains, and why the cloud means it doesn't matter that they exist. 🫠 transactional.blog/b...

The disaggregated wal blog.schmizz.net/disaggregate...

My favourite read of the day: The Mirthful Assyriologist, the Real Noah's Ark, and the Oldest Writing in the World www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-mirthf...

I wrote this a while ago but never shared it here: Strategies for getting involved in open-source garrensmith.com/Opensource/O...

How we built object notifications in Tigris https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/how-we-built-object-notifications

pg_analytics is now licensed under the PG license! (It used to be AGPL.) Now you can use it everywhere. 😀 thanks ParadeDB!

A good overview on how LLM's work. Bonus points for trying out "the cat sat on the ..." example with your local LLM www.jlowin.dev/blog/an-intu...

New post! I think we’re on the cusp of very portable VMs. materializedview.io/...

I'm excited to share a new Tigris Data feature I've been working on: object notifications! This allows you to receive updates when objects in your bucket change. If you curious on how we implemented it? I've written a post about it: www.tigrisdata.com/blog/how-we-...

I was sceptical about coding with AI. I reluctantly tried Cursor and now I'm not sure I could code without it. It's like a sidekick that wants to do the grudge work and give me new ideas.

I send out a monthly change log email that contains the latest notes from my public notes along with book recommendations and online articles I've enjoyed. Latest one is here buttondown.email/garren/archi... If you enjoyed it please spread the work.

Zebras in the sunset. A photo from last weeks vacation.