akhilgupta

@Yuchenj_UW @alighodsi @pwendell @matei_zaharia Welcome Yuchen!!! Excited to work with you to build the future of AI platforms

Life update: I joined Databricks this week! I thought I’d do another startup after Hyperbolic, but I was surprised by how startup-y Databricks AI is. @alighodsi, @pwendell, @matei_zaharia are in full founder mode. They’re the best founders I’ve met. I like working with people who aren’t “normal” and they definitely aren’t. For example, they invited me to an all-hands before I joined. I’m also impressed by how many former founders are here. @akhilgupta and @hanlintang are incredible leaders. A big bonus: I finally have unlimited Claude Code & Codex tokens! AI adoption on the Databricks AI team is insanely high. Every engineer I’ve met uses AI heavily and shares their own ways to drive agents. Many talented people here. I’m super pumped for this new journey!

I am super excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Neon, a developer-centric serverless Postgres company. The Neon team engineered a new database architecture that offers speed, elastic scaling, and branching and forking. The capabilities that make Neon great for developers are also great for AI agents. Together, we'll deliver an open, serverless database foundation for developers and AI agents. databricks.com/company/newsro…

Coming from a French culture that values beauty and craftsmanship above all else has helped me appreciate this deeply. When you birth products for billions of people, you have a responsibility to make them not just useful but also beautiful. Taste is not optional.

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BREAKING NEWS: This is an announcement that has been decades in the making.   On December 5, 2022 a team from DOE's @Livermore_Lab made history by achieving fusion ignition.   This breakthrough will change the future of clean power and America’s national defense forever.

The frontend just went full-stack. Convex announces Series A funding from @a16z. blog.convex.dev/series-a/

When the A round funding still hasn’t hit your bank account.

1/ Recruiting 🧵 Reference Checks are a highly under-utilized method for candidate evaluation They are typically only used at the end of the process (if at all) This is wild because you are often leaving super relevant signal out of the final decision How can you do better?

Really exciting milestone for a company I greatly admire - They are solving a very gnarly problem that almost every company needs to solve, but doesn’t really want to by themselves because of the complexity involved.

We’re excited to announce our $30M Series A led by @a16z! Read our co-founders’ blog post introducing Metronome to learn more. blog.metronome.com/posts/2022/02/…

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I swear Google’s search results are not only worse than they used to be but rapidly declining

I think people don’t quite understand the urgency here. This is the kind of boil the frog change that seems subtle but 20 years from now, if you don’t take action now, an entire Californian generation of STEM researchers, scientists and engineers, will have never existed.

This is ludicrous. Every student in California must wear a mask just so that unvaccinated kids don’t “feel different”? When would this end — masks forever?

Dropbox migration from Nginx to Envoy dropbox.tech/infrastructure… #nginx #EnvoyProxy #gRPC

Another great example of Dropbox leading the charge on security and adopting state of the art technologies twitter.com/frgx/status/99…

Lots of details on @dropbox's Bandaid service proxy. It would be interesting to see how that tackled any performance issues that arose. (Especially given that other entries in this space are C++ and Rust). blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/03/m… #golang