Rafi Shamim

Most things are possible. My website sucks. @cockroachdb

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@largedatabank @laxmivingston that's also part of the cultural exchange. we have an allergy towards lines in general.

[Sajid Mehmood @smehmood]

We're launching @niteshiftdev – the full-stack cloud for coding agents

Verification is the new bottleneck.

Software teams can now define their dev environment and verification tools once. Then run any frontier agent in the cloud: Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode

[Sajid Mehmood @smehmood]

Everyone is talking about this Ramp blog post: background agents are now authoring 30-40% of their PRs (!)

If you read this and thought “I need that” the good news is we’ve built it for you: https://t.co/iZ2eqf0L4Z

If you’re at a fast moving AI-native company, DM me for early access

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@AvgDatabaseCEO thank you!! i love your groundbreaking work in the database field.

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@justinjaffray say you're peace

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@justinjaffray it's also helpful to have a connection pool to amortize the cost of establishing a new connection. computing a password hash for every DB operation adds latency and also uses more CPU in the DB

[Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman]

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@largedatabank I have the duralex picardie glasses too! your tweet made me feel high status

[Peter Mattis @petermattis]

#CockroachDB has long supported cancelling queries via CANCEL QUERY syntax. We're now adding support for the Postgres query cancellation protocol which is natively supported by many drivers. Some interesting technical challenges: https://t.co/ws8xVmZRic

[Monica Hunter-Hart @mhunterhart]

A photo from a secret school for girls & women in Kabul, shared with permission. The latest episode of Asia Stream from @nikkeiasia explains the biggest issues facing Afghanistan right now and hears from people on the ground. Listen on any podcast platform https://t.co/ic8KO7A1K2

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@largedatabank I asked the same question to the creators of @warpdotdev! it sounds like an important optimization, and I definitely don't understand it 😁 https://t.co/pGX0sxhB4r

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@occupy_paul_st thank you and sorry for doing this to you

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@largedatabank wait that's super weird... I have that exact same reservation on my calendar!

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@JordanALewis I have been wanting to watch it too! if I do we will need to discuss it!

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@remicarton @occupy_paul_st congrats!!!!

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@remicarton @occupy_paul_st join us!

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@JordanALewis lol it's definitely too obscure, but i just watched Fargo season 1 and i've been obsessed

[Rafi Shamim @rafiss]

@JordanALewis the t-160 eh? i can see why you're trading her in. she's a real lemon.