Peter Ahn

CCO at @tigerbeetledb | 1000x faster OLTP for the next 30 years | 🇰🇷🇺🇸 Sales Coach | Co-Host Decoding Sales | Author, "Unlocking Authentic Sales"

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

@x86developer @TigerBeetleDB Thank you Manny hope you enjoy!

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

How do you survive and scale past a trillion transactions?

Our team at @TigerBeetleDB has been thinking about this for a long time given the rate at which realtime transactions are increasing.

In the past 10 years, transaction volumes surged 100x–1,000x across cloud, energy, and gaming — and up to 10,000x in real-time payments.

But general purpose databases can’t keep up with the surge.

It’s why to survive a trillion transactions, you need a specialized database that scales not just horizontally, not just vertically, but diagonally. @jorandirkgreef explains 👇

[TigerBeetle @TigerBeetleDB]

"Preferred Qualification: TigerBeetle - if you already know what it is, we want to talk"

Senior Backend Engineer opening @UpholdInc

https://t.co/rcSNX9Ezg9

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

Watch the full talk on our learnings from the 21 day, trillion transactions scale test we did this year: https://t.co/vJyNAN4Z6N

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

And to join us for more of ours and our community's stories register for Systems Distributed '26 here: https://t.co/gnsNvPHhcH

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

"I would just like to say that I'm pretty sure everybody here thinks that that's probably the coolest project they have ever seen in their lifetime"

Almost 2 years after @jorandirkgreef 's interview with
@ThePrimeagen aired, it still gives me goosebumps.

This is what hand-crafted art and quality creates. A magic that even our kids can touch.

Proud that at @TigerBeetleDB while buildling the fastest and safest database in the world, we still find time to build trust and have fun😀

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

You can watch the full talk and this timeless classic here >> https://t.co/ugDhUaQ7xL

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

@danielkwon 🔥🔥🔥

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

Those who claim sales is science haven't felt the power of its art.

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

What an honor to be able to deliver a guest lecture at @Stanford Launchpad on how we think about building trust through sales @TigerBeetleDB.

As a student at Stanford, sales wasn't on my radar. It was and still is an underrepresented craft so it's special to be able to share what I think is one of the most important skills our future leaders should learn.

Thank you to my friend Thaisan for inviting me back for year 2 of this lecture and thank you to all the student entrepreneurs who showed up engaged and excited to learn an authentic brand of sales rooted in deep trust.

#trust #tigersales #bringsalestostanford

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

You can register here :) https://t.co/OJAYXQbiYD

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

I was so bummed to be missing out on @TigerBeetleDB's conference, Systems Distributed, last year.

So much so that I asked @jorandirkgreef to convert to a full time employee just after a week of me starting part-time work 😀

And the talk Joran gave during SD ’25 is something I’ve watched several times over while sharing hundreds of times across friends, family, former-colleagues, and our customers.

You can see in this clip why.

Join me and the team at SD '26 this year in Boston as I'll be there IRL this time! Count down with us!

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

@drewhouston @Dropbox Congrats @drewhouston! Thank you for everything you’ve done for Dropbox and for people like me who were lucky enough to be part of the journey. Appreciate you!

[Joran Dirk Greef @jorandirkgreef]

Something we value at TigerBeetle is that we are craftspeople. It’s who we are and what we do, but more, it’s the quality (and trust) we sell:

“Each line of TigerBeetle code is handcrafted, and then independently reviewed (and understood) by another engineer.”

[TigerBeetle @TigerBeetleDB]

"TigerBeetle provided the flexibility and foundation that allowed us to build specifically around our operational and scalability requirements.

With TigerBeetle, OKTO PAYMENTS can continue to scale without revisiting its foundation."

– Kalebi Serafim, CTO, OKTO PAYMENTS

[Joran Dirk Greef @jorandirkgreef]

Every coder knows an “appeal to authority” is a logical fallacy…

…and yet we all commit an “appeal to popularity” at some point.

For example:

- “use boring technology”
- “we passed 1K stars”
- “BigCorp also uses COBOL!”

All logical fallacies.

Rather, value the intrinsics.

[Joran Dirk Greef @jorandirkgreef]

In the long run, the world rewards quality.
In the short run, keep that in mind.

Do the harder thing today to make tomorrow easier.

[Joran Dirk Greef @jorandirkgreef]

I wrote these words 7 months ago.

I am more grateful today for Andrew's leadership of the ZSF, that the foundations of TigerBeetle, our compiler, should not be vibed out beneath us.

Standing up to “trillion dollar” big corp…

Zig is hard core quality.

https://t.co/xPyfOQLVDL

[TigerBeetle @TigerBeetleDB]

TigerHoops in the Bay with @peterahn!

[Peter Ahn @peterahn]

🏀 Another TigerHoops basketball run in the books! This time in the Bay Area!

What an epic night 🔥

So grateful to my team at @TigerBeetleDB for hand crafting these spaces for our friends to enjoy 🤘❤️