Hacker News: tysont

Agents that remember: introducing Cloudflare Agent Memory

tysont — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:12:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-agent-memory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806815

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Cloudflare Data Platform: ingest, store, query data directly on Cloudflare

tysont — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:29:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-data-platform/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374947

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by tysont in "Fauna Service Winding Down"

tysont — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:24:10 +0000

I led the engineering team at Fauna and this is false - we had a performance culture and performance managed/exited people when they did not meet expectations. I've managed some outstanding teams/organizations at Microsoft, Amazon, and Riot Games and the team behind Fauna was world-class; on par with the best teams that I have seen or been a part of. There are plenty of reasons that the company didn't succeed, some in our control and some out of our control, but the caliber of people at the company and the company culture are not on that list.

Show HN: We Added Full Schema Enforcement to a Document Database

tysont — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:38:29 +0000

Article URL: https://fauna.com/blog/announcing-the-open-beta-of-fauna-schema-build-iterate-and-evolve-schema

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40741205

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Raising the Serverless Bar: Infrastructure APIs Unleash Value for Enterprises

tysont — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:16:50 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/raising-the-serverless-bar-infrastructure-apis-unleash-more-value-for-enterprises/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37849010

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Relational is more than SQL

tysont — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 05:17:34 +0000

Article URL: https://fauna.com/blog/relational-is-more-than-sql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532245

Points: 136

# Comments: 172

Understanding the document-relational database

tysont — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:32:02 +0000

Article URL: https://fauna.com/blog/what-is-a-document-relational-database

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676803

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by tysont in "Why the future of serverless databases is distributed document-relational"

tysont — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:14:00 +0000

James Governor interviews Tyson Trautmann and Matt Freels from Fauna about the document-relational paradigm and the future of databases.

Why the future of serverless databases is distributed document-relational

tysont — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:14:00 +0000

Article URL: https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/08/10/a-redmonk-conversation-why-the-future-of-serverless-databases-is-distributed-document-relational/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470738

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by tysont in "Real World Database Latency"

tysont — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 23:07:43 +0000

League sharded players to geographic regions and didn't allow matches between players in different regions. Geographic location wasn't a consideration in matchmaking otherwise AFAIK. I left Riot when Valorant was still under development and can't speak to how matchmaking works, unfortunately.

New comment by tysont in "Real World Database Latency"

tysont — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 23:04:54 +0000

Nice catch! I investigated this today with the team and we realized that metrics from a dev environment (which isn't representative of our production topology) were being included in our status page internal latency graphs for the US/EU Region Groups. We addressed the issue - you can see the clean data on status.fauna.com.

New comment by tysont in "Real World Database Latency"

tysont — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:54:44 +0000

To add a bit of color from the author, the content in the article was informed by my experience building distributed systems at Microsoft, Amazon, and Riot Games. At Riot we sharded our playerbase for a number of reasons (including complexity of matchmaking), but we may have chosen a different approach if we had a service like Fauna that could push data closer to players at the edge. With centralized relational databases, cross-region calls to load account info, entitlements, etc. would have been a very jarring experience in the client.

I've seen a number of database companies publish blog posts and put out tweets offering a competing point of view: that single-region is enough and multi-region doesn't matter. Would love to engage with that crowd here and get their perspective on the content in the blog post.