Vineeth Pothulapati

👨‍💻 working on new initiatives @tigerdatabase

Working somewhere between ideas, code, and monetizing the products…

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

Lately though, there’s just been a flood of projects, and the enthusiasm doesn’t feel the same anymore.

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

Almost a year ago, whenever a new open source project dropped or hit Hacker News, I’d get pretty excited. I’d go through the discussions, see how people were engaging with it, read what the author had to say, and try to understand how it was built.

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

Lately I’ve been feeling this shift, we’re moving from delegating work to just doing it ourselves with AI.

And weirdly, I feel more territorial about what I build now.

Leverage is up… but so is attachment.

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

The new agents mode UI in Cursor is hands-down amazing. I've been a Cursor user for a while, but the latest changes to the user experience with agent tabs have opened up a new dimension of momentum for thinking about and developing things.

It's so addictive, I keep hitting the limits and wanting to upgrade their pricing plans.

I haven't experienced such frequent updates in any desktop app or coding editor. Updates land almost daily.

[Mike Freedman @michaelfreedman]

I just published a deep technical dive on Fluid Storage, our new disaggregated block storage layer for Postgres.

It comes from years of running one of the largest managed Postgres fleets in the world (outside of the hyperscalers), serving thousands of customers and seeing the good, bad, and ugly of EBS.

Fluid Storage is our rethink of what Postgres storage should look like in the cloud era: high performance, elastic scaling, fast forks and zero-copy snapshots, and resource efficiency with thin provisioning.

Built to serve the modern needs of developers and applications, and the emerging needs of agents.

Read about the architecture 👇

[Ajay Kulkarni @acoustik]

Agents are the New Developer

Agents, like Claude Code, feel uncanny. My first time using it, I built a mobile web app that tracked pushups using computer vision. Just for fun, to see what it could do. One hour later (mostly its time, not mine), I had an app that just worked.

That gave me goosebumps. For the first time, it felt like software wasn't something I built, it was something building with me. It felt like something brand new.

I realized: agents had become the new developer.

But software agents don't behave like human developers. Software development tools need to evolve. Agents need a new kind of database made for how they work.

So we built it. And we're launching it today.

Announcing Agentic Postgres: The First Database Built For Agents.

There's a lot of engineering behind this: a new copy-on-write block storage layer, fast zero-copy forks, new Postgres extensions for full text search (BM25) and semantic search, what (we think is) the best MCP server for Postgres ever built, and a new CLI and free tier.

I'm very proud of what this team has built, especially in such a short period of time.

More here: https://t.co/zZEURfLVKD

Please give it a try. We're just getting started. We’d love your feedback. 🐯🚀

@TimescaleDB @TigerDatabase

[Vishal Biyani @vishal_biyani]

Cloud Native friends - have met and enjoyed every conversation over multiple KubeCons!

Some people are in pictures but many more missing

So happy to be among them again #KubeCon

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

We've evolved beyond our time-series database roots and are thrilled to share new product offerings launching soon.

Check out more details here:

https://t.co/epFep1hfKR

Stay tuned!

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

I have spent over four years at @TimescaleDB, watching us grow and innovate in remarkable ways—we are now entering our next big chapter as TigerData (@TigerDatabase)🙂

The tiger mascot has brought incredible energy to the company since day one.

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

I came across this phrase today, and it instantly resonated with me. While I've been passively recognizing this concept, encountering such a clear and pointed phrase really clicked:

“Their monotony is our opportunity”

[TimescaleDB (by Tiger Data) @TimescaleDB]

Not to be dramatic, but we just made database migrations way less painful with some serious upgrades to our live migration tool.

No more sweating bullets over moving your data—this thing is smoother, faster, and more reliable, all while keeping downtime to a minimum. 🎉

Key Improvements:
🏋️ Migration Paths Galore: Whether you’re on TimescaleDB or PostgreSQL, you can glide into Timescale Cloud like it’s no big deal, with hypertables doing the heavy lifting for faster queries.
💪 Built Like a Tank: Auto-reconnects, graceful terminations, and automatic retries keep things running, even when life (or your network) decides to throw a tantrum.
🏃 Performance Boosts: With batch processing and parallel ops, some migrations just got 100x faster. Blink and you might miss it.
🫶 Community Love: Timescale’s improvements to pgcopydb benefit the whole PostgreSQL fam—no gatekeeping here.
🫂 User-Friendly, Finally: Docs that make sense, step-by-step guides, and error messages that are actually helpful. Welcome to the future, where migrations don’t come with headaches.

Bottom line:
Timescale’s live migration tool casually takes the complexity out of migrations, keeping your downtime short, and ensuring your data is safe and sound. It’s been battle-tested on terabytes of data, and it’s getting better every day as it gears up for V1.0.

Ready to make the switch? We’ve got you covered. Kachow. 🚗💨

🔗👇

[Mike Freedman @michaelfreedman]

The awesomeness of integrating embedded @popsql in @TimescaleDB cloud console:

Create powerful views (via continuous aggregates) that can serve real-time use cases like customer-facing APIs and dashboards directly from the console UI.

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

@0xevolve If I understand correctly, your use case is easy schema migrations with a git-branching-like experience. Is that correct? If yes, we do not offer an inbuilt workflow for that.

Out of curiosity: How often do you perform schema migrations?

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

@vishal_biyani @chinmay185 If you would like to discuss your use case more and see if there are any workarounds that could help, we can share them with you.

Do you mind sharing your email? I will ask the person closely working on this to reach out to you.

[Vineeth Pothulapati @vineeetth]

@vishal_biyani @chinmay185 Hello Chinmay! (thanks Vishal for the mention 😀)

This is a problem we know about and are currently prioritizing. It's a big technical lift for us to support, but we are already working on it.

[KCD Hyderabad @kcdhyderabad]

Are you part of a tech community in Hyderabad? Join the conversation with @vineeetth, @itskpflow, @Md_ZubairAhmed, and @amoghak_!

#KCDHyderabad

[Cloud Native Hyderabad @cncfhyd]

The first talk is by @vineeetth on #Kubernetes then and now. He has been a contributor to the K8s project - and interesting to learn about how it was back then.

Perfect for the occasion.

#CNCFHyderabad

[Mike Freedman @michaelfreedman]

In the U.S., it's the unofficial "Take your kid to work day" today. To keep all the little Tiger Cubs busy, our amazing design team creates some awesome coloring pages for @TimescaleDB kiddos.

They are just too amazing not to share. 🐯

[TimescaleDB (by Tiger Data) @TimescaleDB]

We're Timescale, of course, we're going to tell you to watch this video and click the link below. 🚀

👇 👇👇
https://t.co/igredc3aXc