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rywalker

266 karma · joined October 30, 2012

Founder/CEO at Tembo (https://tembo.io/), previously Founder/CEO of Astronomer (https://www.astronomer.io)
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rywalker··on Ask HN: Why does devin.ai's website set my Mac's fan off?
I can assure you that tembo.io won't do this to you - all the heavy lifting is in background jobs, running Claude Code behind the scenes. Give it a try, would love feedback!
rywalker··on Tips for Engineering with Claude Code
Love seeing adoption of Claude Code - tembo.io can be used to send work to Claude Code automatically from Linear, Sentry, Postgres, and static code analysis.

No humans blocking progress :)

rywalker··on What am I qualified to do?
* Find a startup in your local ecosystem, help them build their product (for free if you must).

* Use AI (Claude Code, Cursor). Get great at this.

* With a little experience (and talent) you can be a next-gen startup CTO/senior dev.

* I'm absolutely not kidding.

rywalker··on Show HN: A PostHog alternative with better UX and easier event tracking
UX looks pretty similar to plausible - Posthog UX is more complex because it has a lot more features than Plausible.

Simpler UX isn't necessarily better, if features are removed.

rywalker··on Honeymoon Is Ending for Email Marketing
That was one long-ass honeymoon, if you want to call it that :)
rywalker··on Introducting dba: The Autonomous AI Agent for Postgres
CEO of Tembo (the company behind dba.ai) here —

Would love to get feedback on the concept, and if you're super eager to try it out, email us at hi@dba.ai and we can fast track you into the product.

rywalker··on pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
Tembo CEO here - we are targeting feature parity for Tembo Cloud w/ RDS as soon as possible, would love to have you give Tembo a try sometime, give us feedback :)

Tembo Cloud is standard SaaS offering, and our new Tembo Self Hosted (https://tembo.io/docs/product/software/tembo-self-hosted/ove...) allows you to run the same software that powers our SaaS, but in your own K8s cluster.

rywalker··on Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database
Excited to see ParadeDB make progress in this area :)
rywalker··on Unison Cloud
Similar to https://www.ubicloud.com/ ?
rywalker··on [dead]
free speech for the win

even if you hate these guys, they should be allowed to talk to each other and share that conversation (that you'll probably hate)

rywalker··on We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
thanks for feedback. website will get better soon, we're adding more marketing content around the product and pricing this sprint
rywalker··on We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
we just launched earlier this month - manifesto: https://tembo.io/blog/manifesto
rywalker··on We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
We're working on a gitops DX for Tembo Cloud, that will allow you to ensure everything you build on Tembo is in source control, and runnable locally w/ our CLI. More info coming soon...
rywalker··on We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
We've integrated postgrest into Tembo Cloud already too, one click to deploy it as a sidecar.
rywalker··on We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
Ugly pricing info here: https://tembo.io/docs/tembo-cloud/billing

We're working this sprint on getting up our "marketing" pricing page.

rywalker··on We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
Tembo CEO here

I would have agreed w/ you 100% 18 months ago. And presently is is messy do to this in Postgres, but it's also messy to choose lots of tools that create sprawl and data islands.

We're spending a significant part of our R&D effort in 2024 towards making it cleaner/safer to do more in Postgres. We have a lot of work to do to build a great gitops developer experience. We're also prioritizing auto-scale, auto-suspend, and auto-tune projects to help reduce the cost of doing "lumpy" things in Postgres.

Would love to have you as a design partner @aurareturn — want to eventually win you over :) hit me up if you're interested in chatting ry [at] tembo [dot] io

rywalker··on PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2023
nice to see it knock Snowflake out of the top 3 :)
rywalker··on Logical Replication from Postgres 16 Stand-By Servers
nice to give standby servers some work to do, without putting their primary job at risk :)
rywalker··on Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
cloudnativepg is great, we're using it as a foundational component to Tembo's OSS and Cloud services (tembo.io).
rywalker··on Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
We're actively working towards adding ParadeDB to Tembo Cloud (cloud.tembo.io) - feel free to message us in app to get alpha access.

i expect supabase will do it too at some point.

rywalker··on Data-stack-hub/DataStack: open-source framework to build real-time web apps
why is it called "data stack" rather than "app stack" if it is "he Fastest way to build apps in python"?
rywalker··on Yeeting over 30k messages per second on Postgres with Tembo MQ
Thanks - sort of boring what we're doing (on the surface) but there is so much goodness inside the Postgres ecosystem that deserves celebration and polish. It's an amazing community to spend time in.
rywalker··on Show HN: pgxman – npm for Postgres extensions
We have some exciting news re: Trunk to announce in January — taking the project to the next level.

Thanks for mention :)

rywalker··on Manage Postgres using Terraform Provider for Tembo
Tembo founder here - we're working on a "private data plane" feature, which relies on our open-sourced k8s-based data plane https://github.com/tembo-io/tembo-stacks - once we have that in place, this provider will hit our API, and will be able to deploy Postgres instances in your private k8s clusters.

We're also working on a CLI for local dev (that doesn't rely on Terraform), that will provide a simple code-based method to managing extensions in config files (among other things. Then you can run everything locally via `tembo instance start` or run remotely via `tembo deploy`.

rywalker··on An introduction to the impact of native planting
I've got 60-acres in Ohio and we've got a land management plan to remove the invasive honeysuckle and tree of heaven – and take care of the sycamores, maples, buckeyes, walnuts, and oaks.

It's a fascinatingly deep area to dive into!

rywalker··on Gothub: Alternative front-end for GitHub written with Go
Pronounced "goat-hub" ?
rywalker··on OpenTF Is Disconnected from Reality
Vlad, I confess that I only read 1/2 way - but nice hot take, great (epic?) X thread.

I'm not as close to all this as you likely are, but rebellions start small and will grow, if there is a strong merit to them.

On the Terraform v. OpenTF front, we'll have to see how things develop.

rywalker··on When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020)
this seems to me to be too much extra work (to prepare) to deliver a compliment.

I'd rather see a culture where compliments/kudos are quick, easy, and often.

rywalker··on Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs
Definitely a cool idea. I could see some places we might be able to use it, especially on our open source projects.
rywalker··on CoreDB, a Managed Postgres Service
Starting on AWS in a few regions, but multi-cloud eventually.
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