Alexis Rico 🦋

Been working on PgBeam, a PostgreSQL proxy that pools connections and caches queries across multiple regions. Any driver, any ORM, just swap the connection string. Live benchmark running real queries from 20 regions: pgbeam.com/launch

@cramforce @zahlekhan @rauchg Going to sleep now but tomorrow I'll revisit the benchmark approach so that execution is no longer server-to-server in Vercel Functions and that the origin request does not even come from the AWS network. That should give results that are the closest to reality.

@cramforce @zahlekhan @rauchg Did a quick experiment trying to add non-trivial writes to the benchmark and also comparing to compute at origin. Round-trip times are comparable and in some cases better. It's all server to server, so IRL latency difference would be even bigger. …rketing-apt0c2sc5-sferadev.vercel.app/benchmark

"Deploy globally" is a lie when your database is in us-east-1. The next big infrastructure unlock isn't faster compute. It's making the data layer invisible. Curious if @rauchg and @cramforce see this the same way. pgbeam.com/blog/connectio…

@zahlekhan @rauchg @cramforce For write operations you benefit from TLS resolution near you and avoiding multiple RTTs, which is quite a lot already. Also PgBeam handles origin to source region data transfer in its own network that is faster than if you connected over regular internet.

@SferaDev @rauchg @cramforce This looks cool. I love the fact apart from the engg you have put efforts into making into migration easy. Would pgBeam work for write heavy workloads? I can see the benefit of reducing connections, anything else I'm missing?

@cramforce @rauchg Appreciate it! It's a problem I keep seeing working for a database company, so I started building it as a side project. Hoping to make it sustainable enough and scale it to be production ready, early numbers are encouraging. Open to chat if you ever want to discuss ideas!

@SferaDev @rauchg Yeah, doing something like this is our recommended approach for global low latency applications that are very read-heavy. Your service looks great

@connyb @ctatedev Nope, didn't see that one! Feel free to open a PR and contribute it as an official adapter!

@ctatedev @SferaDev woot

Introducing Generative TUI Ask anything - get polished dashboards with real data, rendered live in your terminal. 27 components. Streaming. json-render + Ink. npx skills add vercel-labs/json-render --skill ink

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@jeffwilcox Diversification at its best 😅

Several people who work at my employer seem to sell their stock to buy a split of gold and google... interesting times.

@micLivs @ctatedev x.com/SferaDev/statu…

@ctatedev Chris, where’s the nice streaming video? :(

@Utkarsh51557661 @ctatedev At @xata we plan to use it in our CLI as a way for the LLM to return questions about the database similarly how you would do it in the web UI. So that the CLI is just another entrypoint to the same agentic experience.

@ctatedev nice, but how many actual use cases are there for this? more bells and whistles don't always mean better.

@RicheTechGuy @ctatedev On it!

@ctatedev Add a opentui version as well(have had a better XP with perf)

@pelaseyed @ctatedev I'll take a look into OpenTUI as well and add support to it. JSON Render is a framework agnostic library so one doesn't imply you don't have the other!

@ctatedev Ink is aweful though, from a performance and flickering perspective

Weekend idea shipped to upstream open source project in less than 24 hours, we're cooking! Thanks @ctatedev for the awesome @vercel labs projects! This is just the beginning, let's see where we can take this 🫡

@frunzio_luigi @linear @mariomka And that's about right, they blocked for football last night and forgot to unblock it afterwards...

@linear @mariomka Whenever I read “down in Spain” I immediately think about some broadcasting provider that banned the wrong sets of ips

Is @linear down, or is it just me?

@vercel Pull Request: github.com/vercel-labs/js…

Weekend project: terminal renderer for @vercel json-render using ink. Same JSON spec that drives web UIs now renders fully interactive terminal apps: text inputs, selects, markdown, tables, and more. The spec patches in real-time as the model generates, so you can see components stream progressively instead of waiting for the full response from the LLM.

I don’t think AI is lowering the barrier to entry as much as it is giving the very smartest people an even more enormous advantage.

Has anyone successfully used @vercel @v0 with applications that use @better_auth? With all environment variables set, origins+cors configured, when trying to sign-in server logs show 200 requests but the sandbox proxy returns a 500 to the browser...

Scope creep feels different with AI nowadays, it's cheaper to build the products that you've dreamed of with the quality you always wanted them to be!