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Read articles from turbopuffer about vector search, full-text search, and the glories of object storage.

DatabasesPerformance / optimizationDistributed systems / cloud

Posts
38 from 8 Jul 2024 to 26 Oct 2026
Posting
weekly (25 in the last year)
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company blog
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2026 21

  1. The first search engine with fully vectorized query execution
  2. Can Your AI Analyst Keep a Secret?
  3. How Bridgewater Turned 100 Million Documents Into an Edge
  4. RIP, vector database
  5. Why moving embedding inside turbopuffer drops search latency
  6. Post-training open-weight models for large-scale code search
  7. How to ship a database every day
  8. Building turbopuffer
  9. Connect AI to Billions of Legal Documents — Simon Eskildsen & Jacob Lauritzen, Legora
  10. RAG is dead, right??
  11. Training SID-1 to beat GPT-5 at search with 1k+ QPS RL
  12. Simon Eskildsen on scaling Shopify, building turbopuffer, and the future of databases
  13. Mixing numeric attributes into text search for better first-stage relevance
  14. Building the database for trillion-scale AI search
  15. Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design
  16. Object storage-native database for search
  17. Rust zero-cost abstractions vs. SIMD
  18. How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage
  19. ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100 billion vectors
  20. Designing inverted indexes in a KV-store on object storage
  21. Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)

2025 13

  1. Vectorized MAXSCORE over WAND, especially for long LLM-generated queries
  2. FTS v2: up to 20x faster full-text search
  3. Faster vector search
  4. Billion-scale vector storage for RAG
  5. He built a new database in his bedroom
  6. Economical way of serving vector search workloads
  7. turbopuffer on Postgres FM
  8. Memory, evals, and efficient storage in AI systems with turbopuffer and Braintrust
  9. How to build 10x cheaper with object storage
  10. The infrastructure company powering the top AI apps
  11. Billion-scale vector search with Notion
  12. How do vector (search) databases work?
  13. Native filtering for high-recall vector search

2024 4

  1. Building a database on object storage
  2. How to use AI to become a learning machine
  3. Continuous recall measurement
  4. turbopuffer: fast search on object storage