Garren
@garrensmith.bsky.social
Founding Engineer @ Tigris Data, CouchDB PMC - databases and distributed systems. Father, mountain biker, climber and musician
If you need cheap and flexible agent storage in Typescript, use agent-kit: www.tigrisdata.com/blog/agent-k... You can have fifty parallel agents share one storage instead of 50, and four composable functions now replace 100+ storage and IAM calls.
Introducing Agent Kit: Storage Workflows for AI Agents | Tigris Object Storage
A new TypeScript SDK giving AI agents the storage primitives they need: forks, workspaces, checkpoints, and event-driven coordination on Tigris.
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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. 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...
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…
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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...
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.
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Finding the Joy: How AI Helped Us Capture 25 Good Vibes for 2025 shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/finding-th...
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 💛
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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
📷 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.
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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 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!
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How do large language models get so large? Let's dig in: https://buff.ly/3Ctofmo
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,…
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Foundations of Large language models arxiv.org/abs/2501.09223 For those looking for a deep dive into LLM's
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...
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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
A First Look at S3 (Iceberg) Tables
AWS announced S3 Tables today, which brings native support for Apache Iceberg to S3. It’s hard to overstate how exciting this is for the data analytics ecosystem. This post is a quick rundown of my th...
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What is (so special about) Learning in Depth? shelleytonkinsmith.substack.com/p/what-is-so...
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.
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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 disaggregated write-ahead log
The traditional way replicated systems are architected is to physically co-locate the write-ahead log (WAL) on the nodes where the state is being maintained. Then a consensus protocol like Paxos or Raft is used to make sure the log on each replica ag...
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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...
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.
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I wrote this a while ago but never shared it here: Strategies for getting involved in open-source garrensmith.com/Opensource/O...
Open-Source Development - Strategies for getting involved - Garren's public notes
Open-Source Development - Strategies for getting involved - Garren's public notes
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How we built object notifications in Tigris https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/how-we-built-object-notifications
How we built object notifications in Tigris
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 notifications in Tigris.
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pg_analytics is now licensed under the PG license! (It used to be AGPL.) Now you can use it everywhere. 😀 thanks ParadeDB!
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.
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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...
An Intuitive Guide to How LLMs Work
Chatting by chance
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New post! I think we’re on the cusp of very portable VMs. materializedview.io/...
Virtual Machines Are Getting Better
Unikernels, GPU checkpointing, and VM migration are going to reshape the cloud.
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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-...
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...
tigrisdata.com
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.
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...
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