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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.

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Getting started with WarpStream on Tigris By combining WarpStream with Tigris, you get a bottomless, durable, and globally aware message queue. Your data is stored efficiently, close to where it’s consumed, without incurring hidden transfer…

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

You wanted lifecycle rules. Here’s how we made it happen. | Tigris Object Storage Tigris has support for object lifecycle rules, allowing you to automatically move files between storage tiers. Here's the gorey details on how we did it.

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 A simple AI prompt to help you turn everyday moments into affirmations, blessings, and joyful reflections 💛

Finding the Joy: How AI Helped Us Capture 25 Good Vibes for 2025

shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/finding-th...

📷 Beyond the Snapshot: How AI Turns Photos into Nature Lessons 🦦 It’s an otter encore! This time, ChatGPT helps analyze otter antics straight from our photographs.

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

How AI Can Transform Writing Styles: A Fun Experiment Discover how AI can rewrite the same phrase in wildly different tones—from quirky to royal decree!

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? | Tigris Object Storage AI models, comprised mainly of floating-point numbers, function by processing inputs through various components like tokenizers and embedding models. They range in size from gigabytes to terabytes,…

How do large language models get so large? Let's dig in:

https://buff.ly/3Ctofmo

Foundations of Large Language Models This is a book about large language models. As indicated by the title, it primarily focuses on foundational concepts rather than comprehensive coverage of all cutting-edge technologies. The book is st...

Foundations of Large language models arxiv.org/abs/2501.09223

For those looking for a deep dive into LLM's

Turn Learning Into a Video Project with Descript How to use video projects to showcase what your kids (or you!) have learned — and why Descript makes it easier than ever.

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? Kieran Egan has given us what he calls a "simple innovation that can transform schooling." But... what is Learning in Depth? Here's my take, with a special homeschooling spin.

What is (so special about) Learning in Depth?

shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/what-is-so...

I've used the obsidian slides plugin mszturc.github.io/obsidian-adv...

it isn't perfect but you can edit with css for any touch-ups. The slide generation process is then nice and quick with great code formatting.

Awesome, I'll take a read. Thanks

So does that mean logs in a ledger could be out of order?

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...

The Mirthful Assyriologist, the Real Noah's Ark, and the Oldest Writing in the World Irving Finkel is the most interesting man you've never heard of. Enter his world for a captivating glimpse of the secrets embedded within humanity's earliest writing.

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

GitHub - paradedb/pg_analytics: DuckDB-powered analytics for Postgres DuckDB-powered analytics for Postgres. Contribute to paradedb/pg_analytics development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

An Intuitive Guide to How LLMs Work Chatting by chance

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...

Could I join as well 😅

Virtual Machines Are Getting Better Unikernels, GPU checkpointing, and VM migration are going to reshape the cloud.

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

materializedview.io/...

How we built object notifications in Tigris | Tigris Object Storage Tigris now supports object notifications! Object notifications are how you receive events every time something changes in a bucket. This post is a deep dive into the implementation of object notificat...

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.

Edition 3: March Public notes change log Hello, Welcome to the March newsletter. Only one article this month on Range Queries using Badger. This is because I was on vacation in Dullstroom, which was...

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.

Two zebras eating and posing in the dusk light

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