Stu Hood
@stuhood.sh
Working on transactional, Elastic-quality search for Postgres at https://www.paradedb.com/ - 日本語を勉強しています
You have a product, and it needs search. You have agents, and they need retrieval. We're building ParadeDB Cloud for you, so you can focus on shipping: one Postgres for your data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Waitlist open now: paradedb.com/cloud/
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One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Join the waitlist for early access.
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This talk discusses the techniques that ParadeDB uses to achieve its speedups, and why they are difficult to achieve with discreet Postgres indexes. Thanks for hosting, @pgconf.dev!
PGConf.dev 🐘@pgconf.dev · 3w agoWe've posted a video of Stu Hood's talk Pushing the Limits of the Index API: Building a Columnar Store without a TAM https://youtu.be/VPZ... #postgresql #PGConfdev
The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...
Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ...
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Last week on Pender Island, BC. Got out to explore sea life in the shallows on kayaks, but mostly unwound and ate/drank things!
ParadeDB is hiring a platform/distributed systems engineer to come build ParadeDB Cloud with us. This is a high leverage role -- will get to make a lot of big technical decisions and report directly to me. North America only, strong preference for west coast. DMs open.
ParadeDB is working on vector search. Our implementation is designed to solve pgvector's limitations and integrate nicely with our existing full-text search features. We have room for one more engineer. If you've shipped production vector search before, I'd love to talk. DMs open.
Full-text search was solved in 2016, Lucene had owned the space for a decade. Rewriting it in Rust, as a side project, on a plane sounds like a terrible idea. Enter Paul Masurel and Tantivy ... www.paradedb.com/blog/tantivy...
A Conversation with Paul Masurel, Creator of Tantivy
We sat down with Paul Masurel (creator of Tantivy and co-founder of Quickwit) to talk about building a search engine in Rust, following the competitive happy-path with Lucene, open-source maintenance,...
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Our next South Bay Systems meetup will be on March 31. We've got two awesome deep-dive talks from Sugu Sougoumarane (Consensus and Multigres) and @stuhood.sh (Full-Text Search and ParadeDB). Food and beverages will be provided, courtesy of our host, Snowflake. Register here: luma.com/2g3exvjw
South Bay Systems: Consensus & Full Text Search · Luma
Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we bring you two wonderful talks: Sugu Sougoumarane will be speaking about deconstructing consensus…
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This would be such a glow up for 4th and King in SF. And the proximity to Mission Rock would compound that.
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 5mo agoThe first phase is expected to include housing and office space, but the exact mix remains in flux. The project could also include a hotel.
I'll be speaking at PGConf.dev about how @paradedb.bsky.social uses Postgres's IAM and Custom Scan APIs to accelerate Top-K over JOINs: 2026.pgconf.dev/session/682 See you there!
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Top K is a deceptively hard problem in Postgres. "Give me the 10 best rows" works until you add filters and text search, then GIN can't sort and B-trees can't search. BM25 indexes handle equality, sort, and range in one data structure. Here's why that matters: www.paradedb.com/blog/optimiz...
How We Optimized Top K in Postgres
How ParadeDB uses principles from search engines to optimize Postgres' Top K performance.
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What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
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I feel like the "persistent context" that entire.io/blog/hello-e... is built around could instead be... Code comments? Docs? TODO lists? I don't see the upside in hiding the context from users in a binary format, but it has definite downsides.
Hello Entire World · Entire Blog
Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.
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New (to me) coding agent use case: shrinking bug repros involving huge queries. Essentially: "this query reproduces a bug: please binary search to shrink it."
High-quality search is more than keyword matching. Personalization is what takes search from good to great. We're investing a lot in building the "unified retrieval stack" for Postgres this year. Expect lots of announcements. For now, here's how to build personalization today.
ParadeDB@paradedb.com · 7mo agoAnkit (ex-Instacart) shows us how to build personalized search entirely inside PostgreSQL. A search for “king” could mean LOTR: Return of the King or The King’s Speech. To fix that: • Retrieve with BM25 • Rerank with embeddings + cosine similarity www.paradedb.com/blog/persona...
Apache DataFusion meetup in San Francisco: luma.com/p7r6fp2z Thursday, February 19. We are looking for more speakers and attendees!
San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup · Luma
Join us for an evening of talks and community discussion about Apache DataFusion and its growing role in modern data infrastructure. This year’s meetup will…
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As part of our v0.20.0 release late last year we did a lot of work on increasing write throughput. Adding any index to a Postgres table trades off write speed for read speed, and BM25 indexes aren't any exception. So we set out to make things better .... www.paradedb.com/blog/increas...
How We Made Writes 10x Faster for Search
How ParadeDB achieved 10x improved write throughput through searchable buffers, background merging, and handling Postgres HOT chains.
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The #tokioconf speakers and talks just got posted: www.tokioconf.com Ticket sales are open! Since it is our first conference, it is hard to estimate how many people will come. We're starting conservative, only 200 tickets right now.
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I'm very excited about the work that we did on this: it allows for an extremely common full text search use case via a natural blend of fully compliant SQL syntax, with faceted aggregates that are familiar to full text search users. And it's fast! www.paradedb.com/blog/faceting
14x Faster Faceted Search in PostgreSQL with ParadeDB
Introducing faceted search in ParadeDB - bringing the power of search engine faceting to PostgreSQL with single-query aggregations.
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Faceting looks simple, it's just counts next to search results right? But making it fast and ergonomic is harder than it seems. We just shipped native faceting in ParadeDB: it runs inside Postgres, in a index single pass, and is 14× faster over large result sets👇 www.paradedb.com/blog/faceting
14x Faster Faceted Search in PostgreSQL with ParadeDB
Introducing faceted search in ParadeDB - bringing the power of search engine faceting to PostgreSQL with single-query aggregations.
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We've shown you parts of our V2 SQL API over the last month, but here's a full post looking at everything you can do with it. Check out the side by side of the CREATE TABLE for old and new APIs, it's so much better ❤️. www.paradedb.com/blog/v2api
Deep Dive into ParadeDB's v2 API: The Future of SQL Search
Explore ParadeDB's v2 API that eliminates schema duplication, simplifies tokenization, and provides transparent search operators for intuitive SQL-based full-text search.
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The Nakasendo Trail between Magome (馬籠宿) and Tsumago (妻籠宿) in the Kiso Valley, Nagano.
Presenting the #rustlang quotes from the Mozilla QDB brson.github.io/2025/11/21/r...
Presenting the Rust quotes from the Mozilla QDB
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Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoBessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"
