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Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Hørup Eskildsen of Turbopuffer

Turbopuffer, a search engine for unstructured data, was founded by Simon Hørup Eskildsen after he encountered significant cost issues while optimizing infrastructure for Readwise. Eskildsen aims to address the high expenses associated with vector search and relational databases for AI applications. The company's architecture leverages object storage and NVMe, eschewing traditional consensus layers to improve performance and reduce costs, particularly for agentic workloads that involve numerous concurrent queries. AI

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RANK_REASON Turbopuffer is a product/service launch focused on AI infrastructure optimization, not a frontier model release or major industry shift.

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Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Hørup Eskildsen of Turbopuffer

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    Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Hørup Eskildsen of Turbopuffer

    <p>Turbopuffer came out of a reading app.</p><p>In <strong>2022</strong>, <strong>Simon</strong> was helping his friends at Readwise scale their infra for a highly requested feature: article recommendations and semantic search. Readwise was paying <strong>~$5k/month</strong> for …