Philippe Noël
@philippemnoel.bsky.social
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CEO
@paradedb.bsky.social
• H'20 • 🇫🇷🇨🇦
https://philippemnoel.posthaven.com
1/7. I'm excited to announce ParadeDB v0.20.0. This is our largest release to date, delivering on the 3 most requested features in ParadeDB: - Faster aggregates - Faster ingest - A more intuitive SQL interface I'm very proud of this release. Let's dive in 🧵
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Martin Kleppmann
about 1 month ago
At long last,
@chris.blue
and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.
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This morning, I found myself re-reading this article by The Honest Broker on evaluating character. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend you do. It's an incredibly distilled set of principles that has benefited me immensely in life. Intemporal advice.
www.honest-broker.com/p/my-8-best-...
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My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
These methods have helped me enormously—and can save you much heartache and anxiety
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-8-best-techniques-for-evaluating
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I saw this on LinkedIn and it was just too accurate to not share here. Postgres powers so much of the world's software yet the core team is a couple dozen people. The ecosystem around it is also surprisingly small for how far reaching it is.
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Couldn't agree more. This is also what we're seeing at ParadeDB
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about 1 month ago
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CloudNativePG
about 1 month ago
Floor Drees summarized the talk she gave a PGConf EU with CloudNativePG maintainer Gabriele Bartolini last week, titled "They grow up so fast: donating your open source project to a foundation". In case you're curious about the project's origin story:
dev.to/floord/they-...
#Postgres
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They grow up so fast: donating your open source project to a foundation (or: the CloudNativePG story)
The first commit to the CloudNativePG project was made in February 2020. Just two years later, EDB...
https://dev.to/floord/they-grow-up-so-fast-donating-your-open-source-project-to-a-foundation-or-the-cloudnativepg-1999
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The conclusions aren't all 100% right here, but I was quite surprised to see us picked up by Tinybird. Must be doing something right
www.tinybird.co/blog/clickho...
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ClickHouse® vs ParadeDB: Can the parade keep up?
Compare ClickHouse vs ParadeDB for analytics workloads: architecture differences, performance benchmarks, scaling capabilities, and migration guidance.
https://www.tinybird.co/blog/clickhouse-vs-paradedb
about 1 month ago
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Learning SEO optimization is kinda fun
about 1 month ago
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I'm at PGConf EU in Riga this week. If you're around, come say hi!
about 1 month ago
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I'm interested in hiring an "SEO consultant" to come in, evaluate our SEO posture and make a list of recommendations for what to improve next. Got anyone to recommend?
about 2 months ago
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Chris
about 2 months ago
Had a few folks ask why you'd need ACID for search. This
@paradedb.bsky.social
article from
@philippemnoel.bsky.social
and company does a decent job making the case. There are a lot of cases (e.g. fintech) where strong consistency and durability is a big deal for search.
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ParadeDB
The Transactional Elasticsearch Alternative Built on Postgres
https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-acid-test
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There's a ParadeDB pg_search package for the .NET! Kudos to Nandor on this one. Source and package manager links: -
www.nuget.org/packages/EFC...
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github.com/nandor23/EFC...
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EFCore.ParadeDB.PgSearch 0.1.0
EFCore.ParadeDB.PgSearch adds ParadeDB's pg_search extension support to Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL. Exposes ParadeDB search functions through EF.Functions API for LINQ-based full-text searc...
https://www.nuget.org/packages/EFCore.ParadeDB.PgSearch
2 months ago
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An excellent, to-the-point blog post. One architecture difference to note is that MongoDB Search runs outside of the main MongoDB process, while in ParadeDB it runs inside. We've revamping our tokenizers and will fix this emoji tokenization issue. Thanks Franck!
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2 months ago
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Is it just me or the new macOS Liquid GLass Spotlight is kinda laggy... Ugh (On M3 MacBook Air)
2 months ago
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A fantastic podcast by our engineer, Ankit Mittal, on how Instacart built search on Postgres, where the future of search infrastructure is going, and why that led him to join us at ParadeDB:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohp...
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Postgres vs. Elasticsearch: Instacart’s Unexpected Winner in High-Stakes Search with Ankit Mittal
YouTube video by The Data Engineering Show - Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohp-Dmo_R0
2 months ago
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We're writing again! We've got a series of exciting articles coming up, with the first one: Elasticsearch Was Never a Database Elasticsearch is an amazing product. Really. But it's not a transactional database. Yet because of how painful sync-ing it with Postgres is, many try to. Read on:
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2 months ago
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Interesting article on narrowing the use case to find PMF:
medium.com/craft-ventur...
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The Sharp Startup: When PayPal Found Product-Market Fit
Reflections on the 20th anniversary of a $100+ billion product
https://medium.com/craft-ventures/the-sharp-startup-when-paypal-found-product-market-fit-5ba47ad35d0b
3 months ago
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CloudNativePG
3 months ago
⚡️ Lightning Talk @
#KubeCon
: CloudNativePG: Running Postgres the Kubernetes Way 📅 Mon, Nov 10 | 🕓 4:12–4:17pm EST 👤 Gabriele Bartolini, Maintainer Discover why CloudNativePG—the only CNCF project dedicated to Postgres—brings production-grade, cloud-native Postgres to Kubernetes. 🚀
sched.co/27d5y
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: Project Lightning Talk: CloudNativePG: R...
View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
https://sched.co/27d5y
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1/3. ETL: no company's favorite tool, every company's necessary evil. Synchronizing Postgres to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is an incredibly common workflow, usually via an ETL tool like Kafka+Debezium. But what if you had another option?
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3 months ago
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A great blog post by the folks at Feldera on testing a strongly-consistent, core infrastructure system. We use many of the same ideas at ParadeDB (especially proptesting):
www.feldera.com/blog/correct...
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Correctness at Feldera
In this blog post, we briefly describe our efforts and development processes that ensure Feldera's engine is correct.
https://www.feldera.com/blog/correctness-at-feldera
3 months ago
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I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve thinking about the new people that are joining us at ParadeDB next week. Stay tuned 🤩
4 months ago
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"A normalized data model allowed us to have a 10x reduction in write workload compared to the denormalized data model that we had to use in Elasticsearch. This led to substantial savings on storage and indexing." Why Instacart picked Postgres for search:
tech.instacart.com/how-instacar...
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How Instacart Built a Modern Search Infrastructure on Postgres
Ankit Mittal, Vinesh Gudla, Guanghua Shu, Akshay Nair, Tejaswi Tenneti, Andrew Tanner
https://tech.instacart.com/how-instacart-built-a-modern-search-infrastructure-on-postgres-c528fa601d54
4 months ago
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ParadeDB just reached 70 contributors. I spent some time reflecting on what brings people to contribute to open-source projects. Lmk what you think:
philippemnoel.posthaven.com/community-co...
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Community Contributions
I used to believe that solving hard technical challenges was the most rewarding part of building a technical product. As satisfying as that is, I may have found something even more fulfilling:...
https://philippemnoel.posthaven.com/community-contributions
4 months ago
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The future is Postgres (and Rust):
survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technol...
4 months ago
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1/4. I'm incredibly excited for this case study to come out. The @paradedb and @BiltRewards teams have been working together to take Bilt's user-facing search experience to the next level, all without the cumbersome infrastructure of a bespoke search database.
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4 months ago
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ParadeDB transactions-per-second (TPS) 3x-ing in the upcoming release 👀
5 months ago
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1/5.
@paradedb.bsky.social
has raised a $12M Series A to bring Elasticsearch workloads to Postgres. 🧵
5 months ago
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POSETTE: An Event for Postgres
5 months ago
👀 Take a look at
@philippemnoel.bsky.social
’s talk from
#PosetteConf
2025 “Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in
#Postgres
via Tantivy. 🔍 💥
youtu.be/mR0YpC0j1BI
#postgresql
#databases
#tantivy
#community
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A bit late to the party, but this is amazing:
planetscale.com/blog/planets...
. They are realizing how important Postgres is and putting their world class expertise behind it. I expect this to benefit the entire ecosystem.
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Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres — PlanetScale
PlanetScale now supports Postgres
https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-for-postgres
5 months ago
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Most of my focus at ParadeDB over the recent months has been on hiring. I spent some time thinking about what's worked well and what hasn't. Lmk what you think:
philippemnoel.posthaven.com/hiring-is-ha...
5 months ago
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Every time I open Docker Desktop, I can hear my laptop cry for help. Really feel like it's gotten worse since they added the whole Gordon and MCP toolkits...
5 months ago
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On our latest ParadeDB blog post about the LSM tree we built in Postgres, many asked me how we map it down to Postgres pages. We also wrote a blog post about that, which you can find here:
www.paradedb.com/blog/block_s...
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ParadeDB
Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
https://www.paradedb.com/blog/block_storage_part_one
5 months ago
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1/12. I'm excited to share our latest technical blog post on ParadeDB. After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us. Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵
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5 months ago
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Anyone who thinks AGI is close hasn't had GitHub Copilot review their PRs
5 months ago
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Every time I accidentally look at the LinkedIn feed I lose a few brain cells
5 months ago
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In case you missed it, here's my talk at POSETTE on ParadeDB and search in Postgres:
youtu.be/mR0YpC0j1BI
#posetteconf
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Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in Postgres via Tantivy | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
https://youtu.be/mR0YpC0j1BI
6 months ago
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Philippe Noël
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres
6 months ago
😳 Watch Philippe Noël at
#PosetteConf
Livestream 1 as he explores Elasticsearch-quality full-text search in
#PostgreSQL
. 🌟 🐘
posetteconf.com
@philippemnoel.bsky.social
#postgres
#databases
#paradedb
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POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025
Happening Now! POSETTE: An Event for Postgres is a virtual and free developer event happening on June 10-12, 2025. Come watch the livestream to learn what you can do with the world’s most advanced…
https://posetteconf.com
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Sung Kim
6 months ago
On Postgres, - Install pg_search extension - Create BM25 index of your data (e.g., CREATE INDEX ...) - Query with BM25 scoring
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Philippe Noël
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres
6 months ago
🧊 Do you know
#PosetteConf
speaker
@philippemnoel.bsky.social
's (Philippe Noël) favorite icebreaker at
#Postgres
events? Spoiler--he doesn't have one! 🐘 But he shares more fun facts at:
posetteconf.com/speakers/phi...
#postgresql
#databases
#OpenSource
#community
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Speaker: Philippe Noël | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025
Philippe Noël, Co-founder, CEO @ ParadeDB, is a speaker for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025. Philippe’s talk is titled “Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in Postgres via Tantivy”.
https://posetteconf.com/speakers/philippe-noel/#interview
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LinkedIn: Not using Postgres is potentially harmful 😂
6 months ago
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Philippe Noël
CloudNativePG
7 months ago
We updated the testimonials page, and wanted to share this quote from Philippe Noël, Co-founder & CEO at
@paradedb.bsky.social
cloudnative-pg.io/end_users/
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Eric Pugh
7 months ago
There are two kinds of people in search. Those who think ETL is bad and those who don’t even think about. Thanks for sharing
@paradedb.bsky.social
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“Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means that you care about something.” Really wonderful article in the NYT today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...
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Opinion | How to Have a Passionate Life (Gift Article)
Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/opinion/persistence-work-difficulty.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U4.VS-V.R94NfXeNK3Rn&smid=url-share
8 months ago
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Cool project built on top of ParadeDB:
glama.ai/mcp/servers
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Open-Source MCP servers
Production-ready and experimental MCP servers that extend AI capabilities through file access, database connections, API integrations, and other contextual services.
https://glama.ai/mcp/servers
8 months ago
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Philippe Noël
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres
8 months ago
📣 CEO of ParadeDB Philippe Noël
@philippemnoel.bsky.social
will speak about "Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in
#PostgreSQL
via Tantivy" at
#PosetteConf
2025 (Livestream 1 on Tue Jun 10th @ 1:00pm PDT (UTC-7)). 🐘 Learn more:
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Speaker: Philippe Noël | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025
Philippe Noël, Co-founder, CEO @ ParadeDB, is a speaker for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. Philippe’s talk is titled “Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in Postgres via Tantivy”.
https://posetteconf.com/speakers/philippe-noel/
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1/5. I'm really excited to announce that
@paradedb.bsky.social
is now available on
@neon.tech
. Fast full-text search, fast analytics, serverless, 100% Postgres🤯! A story... 🧵
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8 months ago
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It's a really exciting time for us at ParadeDB! Welcome
@stuhood.sh
:)
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8 months ago
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Philippe Noël
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres
9 months ago
🥁 CEO of ParadeDB Philippe Noël will speak about "Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in
#PostgreSQL
via Tantivy" at
#PosetteConf
2025 (Livestream 1 on Tue Jun 10th @ 1:00pm PDT (UTC-7)). 🐘 Learn more:
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Speaker: Philippe Noël | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025
Philippe Noël, Co-founder, CEO @ ParadeDB, is a speaker for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. Philippe’s talk is titled “Elasticsearch-Quality Full-Text Search in Postgres via Tantivy”.
https://posetteconf.com/speakers/philippe-noel/
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"Companies like MinIO, Grafana, Citus, Quickwit, and ParadeDB have embraced AGPL..." ParadeDB is proud to stand by the AGPL -- It uniquely enables a sustainable free software model. Attempts to modify the AGPL reflects not on the license but on how it is applied. Source:
socket.dev/blog/fsf-goe...
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Free Software Foundation Goes to Bat for AGPL in Amicus Brie...
FSF files an amicus brief against Neo4j, defending the AGPL and warning against adding restrictive terms that undermine free software rights.
https://socket.dev/blog/fsf-goes-to-bat-for-agpl
9 months ago
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*PG Talk News*. Excited to be speaking at
@posetteconf.com
on June 10-12 about ParadeDB and search/analytics workloads in Postgres! It's a livestreamed Postgres conference, tune in!
9 months ago
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