Sugu Sougoumarane

I'm re-releasing the generalized consensus series one blog at a time for easier ingestion. Today, it will be the first two parts: Defining the Problem and Setting the Requirements. Links in 🧵

Massive scaling improvement to Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY with multigres connection pooling magic.

@kiwicopple I looked up the definition: Exercise means to put into effect the right to buy or sell the underlying financial instrument specified in an options contract.

YC startup advice:

To become warm and kind after reaching success is one thing. It's more rare to see someone be so from the beginning. This one is a profile interview of @kiwicopple, and worth a watch. youtu.be/bRL-Om8B_ck?si…

@glcst Cheering for you!

Weekly Active Users on the Turso Cloud If you are one of the users now finding what a lighweight database can do, either locally or in the Cloud... welcome!

Interested in learning about @multigres? Deepthi Sigireddi (@ATechGirl), our head of databases, is running a webinar during PostgresWorld tomorrow. postgresconf.org/conferences/po…

If you understand it and can explain what it's all about, apply here jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/2e718…

You have to read this 11-part blog series x.com/ssougou/status…

Only a handful of people understand generalized consensus. If you think you're one of them, you have a place in the Multigres team. Info in 🧵

If you thought last year was awesome, this one is going to be electric. Uncomfortably excited.

@eqoram @AntWilson @multigres @DatadogEng They should publish it soon.

@AntWilson @ssougou @multigres @DatadogEng Can the talk also be watched online?

.@ssougou talks @multigres

I made this brief trip to NYC for Dash by @datadoghq. @supabase draws such epic crowds, so amazing. And @junahmed27 pulled me out of my comfort zone during our fireside chat.

bittersweet! notes.eatonphil.com/2026-06-15-doi…

Exactly one year ago, I joined Supabase. The fun I've been having with Multigres is a given. But I want to highlight the level of integrity in the leadership team. And the people at Supabase have been a delight to work with. Feels like home.

@bizz_john @kiwicopple @multigres Multigres HA implements a consensus protocol. So, we can guarantee correct split brain resolution under all circumstances.

@kiwicopple @multigres How is it different from cloudnative-pg.io

Supabase has raised $500M at a $10B valuation In this round we are giving @supabase employees the opportunity to cash out 25% of their vested options. We have done this in every round since inception. We do it as a “cashless transaction” so that employees don’t need to front any cash to exercise their options. This is the friendliest way we could design it until we can offer RSUs. On top of that, we give employees a 10 year exercise window: whether they stay or leave the company. The typical/default window is 3 months. IMO, equity is earned and employees shouldn't be penalized because they don't have the cash to exercise within 3 months of leaving a job (often that's the time they need the cash/certainty the most).

This alpha release of Multigres has a message: We want to redefine how to run Postgres, solving previously unsolved problems. Our motto is: "Don't accept accepted problems".

@MinisterOfEng @haritabh_gupta @multigres I don't think the Postgres protocol has enough support for this. It would be possible in a custom grpc protocol.

@ssougou @haritabh_gupta @multigres @ssougou @haritabh_gupta does this also have the ability to pass connection state to the client so the Multigate becomes completely stateless ?

Connection Pooling that doesn't require session mode, yet works like you're directly connected to Postgres? @haritabh_gupta explains how we did it in @multigres multigres.com/blog/building-….

@eatonphil @ceccon_me I'd recommend any of these: - @ATechGirl: previous tech lead of vitess, now head of databases at supabase - @rafaelchacon: previously scaled Slack, now founding engineer of multigres I can give you more names if you want :)

@ceccon_me @ssougou He's too well known. But someone on his team yes. :)

I'm always looking for recommendations on people to interview for The Consensus. I publish one of these a month. Looking for developers anywhere in the world with an interesting background who contribute to key software infrastructure. Don't just send me database people (though please do), and don't send me people who are already well recognized. If you send me someone, please briefly help me understand what they've done.