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Cofounder @upstash - Serverless Redis and Kafka Previously @confluentinc and @Hazelcast

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Joined April 2008
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 months
Introducing Upsy! An open-source Slack chatbot that remembers the channel history to provide quick and accurate responses to your questions. Self-hosted, and all data is stored in your own database. Powered by @upstash , @openai and @flydotio
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
We launched Serverless Kafka! Now, you can have a fully managed Kafka cluster without paying hundreds of dollars.
@upstash
Upstash
2 years
🎊 Upstash Launches Serverless Kafka! 💯 Per request pricing with a monthly cap. 💯 Support Apache Kafka protocol. 💯 REST API for serverless and edge functions. 💯 Multizone replication. 💯 No charge on bandwidth. 💯 Free tier, no credit card required.
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Enes Akar
3 months
With so many recent releases and updates from us, I took the time to reflect and write about the story of Upstash. We started as just three people about three years ago, and since then, a lot has changed - you can read about the full story here:
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 months
Upstash does not have a launch week. We launch the products whenever they are ready enough. Something like `continuous launching`
@upstash
Upstash
2 months
Introducing Upstash SQS! SQS like Queue SDK on top of Upstash Redis Streams.
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5 years
We launched hazelcast cloud for beta. You will be able to setup and scale your cluster in seconds. It has free tier and $50 credits. Please try and share feedback.
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Enes Akar
1 year
I have developed a Chrome extension which uses ChatGPT API to improve your writing. Select a text, ChatGPT suggests its better version. Used @Vercel Edge for backend, @Upstash for rate limiting. Thanks to @nutlope and @steventey for the inspiration.
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Enes Akar
2 months
We've released the most requested feature for Upstash Vector. Now, you can perform SQL queries on vector metadata.
@upstash
Upstash
2 months
Our vector database just got a big upgrade - announcing metadata filtering for Upstash Vector! 🔸Query your vectors by metadata 🔸High-performance 🔸Intuitive, SQL like syntax How it works & examples 👇🏻
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Enes Akar
10 days
Finally 😮‍💨 Now, you can use @upstash /ratelimit for your AI apps. It will update the rate by tokens not requests. Thanks to @_sourabpramanik for the contribution. 💚 OS
@upstash
Upstash
10 days
Update for Rate Limit SDK! ⏳ Two new features: ◆ Custom consumption rates with the new rate parameter! Now, you can precisely limit requests based on the number of tokens. Great for rate limiting AI APIs that are priced by tokens rather than requests. ◆ New API:
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Enes Akar
22 days
🔥I was surprised that other vector databases are not doing this.
@upstash
Upstash
22 days
Introducing Upstash Embedding Models! Starting today, you can insert and query raw string data with your Upstash Vector database. ◆ no more third party needed to vectorize text ◆ using high-quality open-source models 👇Detailed summary
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Enes Akar
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I am working with computer science students on open-source projects. Comparing them with myself 20 years ago, I can easily say their productivity is 83 times higher.
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Enes Akar
2 months
I cannot find motivation to work on anything in a world where starving people seeking aid are bombed.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 months
A startup is facing challenges and making tough decisions. It's disheartening to see some opportunistic competitors acting like vultures in these difficult times.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 months
we are losing revenue but gaining many more users thanks to this
@alfonsusac
Alfon
3 months
@t3dotgg Not to mention it already uses in-memory cache under heavy load. So you wont rake up the upstash quota
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 months
Now, you can use Upstash Kafka inside Fly.
@flydotio
Fly.io
2 months
Managed Kafka on infra! It's a new private beta with our friends @upstash :
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Enes Akar
4 months
Database-as-a-service companies create their own pricing dimensions (read units and write units). They guarantee their profitability over infrastructure costs, but pricing gets very complicated for users. Hard to understand, hard to calculate.
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Enes Akar
2 years
AWS just announced AWS MSK (Serverless). How can a service be serverless if it charges per hour? #awsreinvent2021
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 years
Serverless functions are great to run your backend. As they are stateless, you need an external data store. So let's talk about what makes a database great for serverless. 👇👇👇
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Enes Akar
1 year
I asked `why upstash kafka`. She explained better than me:
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
4 months
upstash docs does not need a `Understanding Pricing` section.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
5 years
Announcing Hazelcast Cloud GA
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3 months
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Enes Akar
13 days
Cloudflare Workers + Honojs + Upstash = 🚀 @honojs @ritakozlov_ @yusukebe @dok2001
@upstash
Upstash
13 days
New video! Josh builds Profanity API which detects toxic content in the input. He shows how to build a high-scale API using: 🔹 @honojs for the API 🔹Upstash Vector for profanity filtering 🔹Cloudflare Workers for the backend 🔹Vercel for frontend hosting
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
1 year
.. and when we implement query/search support on top of this, you may not need any other database.
@upstash
Upstash
1 year
🚀 Introducing Upstash JSON for Redis®. As of today, store, retrieve and manipulate your JSON data with ease using Redis® commands. Full compatibility with RedisJSON. Check it out! 🔥
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Enes Akar
19 days
👨‍🍳 😋
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
7 months
deno kv is colocated with deno runtime. still upstash redis is faster than deno kv. how is that possible 🤔
@upstash
Upstash
7 months
Deno KV vs Upstash Redis 🏎️
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Enes Akar
3 months
upsy is happy today.
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Enes Akar
3 months
Introducing Upsy! An open-source Slack chatbot that remembers the channel history to provide quick and accurate responses to your questions. Self-hosted, and all data is stored in your own database. Powered by @upstash , @openai and @flydotio
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
4 years
boolean canTestForCoronaInUS() { return ( hasFever && hasCough && hasTravelled ) || isCelebrity || hasPower; }
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
5 months
crazy 😮
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Enes Akar
5 years
Great explanation of consistency levels by @daniel_abadi
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
... and 2022 will be bigger 🤞
@upstash
Upstash
2 years
2021 was a big year for Upstash!
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Enes Akar
1 year
Nowadays, it is hard say something against AWS. Half of the people tweeting about cloud is either AWS employee, or hero or champion or community builder or fanboy blah blah.
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Enes Akar
2 months
@mehulmpt Yes. We aimed a fully multi tenant and serverless friendly offering. One requirement was to minimize the resource overhead while the database is idle. This was very hard with Redis. We decided to write it from scratch and design it for serverless from day 1.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
`Sign up` links are big and everywhere. `Log in` links are small and hidden. Existing users are not valued.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
6 months
According to mainstream media, mysterious blasts are happening in a city called Gaza. 🤔🤔🤔 @BBCWorld
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Enes Akar
1 month
we should share bad news as well as good news
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Enes Akar
2 months
@sandro_vol @upstash @momentohq Hi Sandro. This will not affect us ( @upstash ). We do not use Redis, we implemented a KV compatible with Redis API from scratch.
@upstash
Upstash
2 months
The license restrictions on Redis will not impact the features of any Upstash product. `Upstash for Redis` is a custom key-value store implementation compatible with the Redis API. We implemented everything from scratch without using any code from Redis open source projects. Our
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
9 years
Hazelcast 3.6 Early Access is out!
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 years
I used Google Cloud Run and Cloud Functions for small prototypes. Here my first impressions:
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
9 years
hazelcast 3.5.1 released! http://t.co/uQ7peiLgBN
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
8 years
What Big Data Tools Do Java Developers Use?
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Enes Akar
8 years
hazelcast 3.6 is out!
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
4 years
Hey @Google When I try to access a document, you can check if any my logged-in account has access; instead of forwarding me to `access denied` page. This requires a for-loop; not a machine learning algorithm :)
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
8 years
we are looking for new team members #hazelcast
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
AWS Data Transfer Pricing 😤 Most complex pricing ever!
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 months
Mini tutorial 👉 What is RAG? 👇
@upstash
Upstash
3 months
When building reliable and factually accurate AI tools, you’ll often hear the term “RAG” thrown around. It’s a fancy way to describe a simple but very clever architecture to build AI apps - here’s how it works 👇
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
1 year
we should close the gap so people will not need aws. cc: @vercel @upstash
@ahammer__
Aaron Hammer
1 year
horrible feeling when you know you’ll have to use AWS for a side project instead of just exclusively using @vercel and @upstash for everything 🫠 I was so close but need to run a function that could easily take longer then 60 seconds.
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Enes Akar
12 days
finally I tried vercel ai and groq
@upstash
Upstash
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New Tutorial! Creating a basic AI chat app using Vercel AI SDK & @GroqInc 's LPU architecture. We're integrating the speedy Llama3-70b model from Meta.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 years
@awscloud Hey AWS. @upstash has a Serverless Redis service which - can scale to zero. - has REST API in addition to Redis API. - durable storage. - much cheaper with max $120 per month price cap.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
Upstash ➕ Fly = 🚀🚀🚀
@mrkurt
kurtle 🐢
2 years
Preview: managed Redis on , powered by @upstash :
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
1 year
I was expecting a bigger gap between upstash and others. We will check the benchmark code.
@t3dotgg
Theo - t3.gg
1 year
Love seeing @upstash and @planetscaledata continue to dominate in performance on the edge 🙏
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
Upstash is a perfect match for @Vercel / @Netlify Edge Functions because: 1⃣ Global database 👉 low latency from anywhere 2⃣ Built-in REST API 👉 no connection issues 3⃣Upstash SDK 👉 compatible with Deno and WebAssembly runtimes
@upstash
Upstash
2 years
🌟 New Post: Learn how to build @Netlify Edge Functions and use Upstash Redis as its data store.
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Enes Akar
2 years
I feel nervous to say something against AWS. Half of the cloud community is either AWS employee or AWS champion or AWS hero or AWS community builder...
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Enes Akar
4 months
QStash enables long-running APIs for time-sensitive runtimes. It makes serverless use cases possible for non-serverless runtimes. In the article below, the author wants to call a Vercel app from Slack Bolt (an SDK for Slack bots). The challenge is that Slack Bolt has a very
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
5 months
rate limit your virtual pet with upstash :)
@stuffyokodraws
Yoko
5 months
NEW RELEASE!! ✨A SaaS AI Tamagotchi everyone can host✨🐣 Demo ➡️ 🧵 Stack: *SaaS Mode*: - 🔐 Auth & User Management: @ClerkDev - ☁️ Hosting & Inference platform: @flydotio - 🥇 Rate Limiting: @upstash (+all of below) *Local
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1 year
@leeerob @vercel Add a builtin low latency key value store. Just like @upstash redis 😉
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Enes Akar
1 year
Vercel KV Redis compatibility
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
18 days
she is really good 💯
@martin_casado
martin_casado
18 days
So very excited for the promotion of @JenniferHli to GP. She's a primary reason @a16z enterprise investing is what it is, being a key player behind so many deals, our team and our investment philosophy and process. She really is "the best of us".
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
6 years
Yeni projemizde birlikte heyecanlanacak, spring/docker/kubernetes sever arkadaslar ariyoruz.
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Enes Akar
5 years
Auto-Scaling Clusters with Hazelcast Cloud
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Enes Akar
8 days
Big day for QStash 🤩 Queue and batching support. These were the most requested features from the users.
@upstash
Upstash
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We’re happy to introduce 3 new QStash features! These suggestions come straight from you guys in the community. ◆ Ordered message delivery ◆ Parallelism - process multiple items in parallel ◆ Batching - batch multiple QStash messages Everything new in 3 minutes 👇
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Enes Akar
2 years
@atehrosius @alexbdebrie Hey @alexbdebrie . The numbers you referred is from Upstash global database. For caching, you can select a single region database and when it is the same region with your application then latency will be <1ms which is good for caching usecase.
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Enes Akar
4 years
Design patterns in cloud architectures
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 years
REST is simple and clean.
@upstash
Upstash
3 years
Stateful AWS Lambda with Redis REST Just 5⃣ lines of code: #serverless #redis #aws
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Enes Akar
5 months
last week, i have implemented my first rag app. the experience was smooth only after i use @LangChainAI instead of calling openai and pinecone apis myself.
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Enes Akar
4 years
For simple design mockups. Photoshop is expensive. Gimp is complicated. Try Pixlr. Their new editor looks really great @pixlr
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Enes Akar
6 months
Another good use case of QStash.
@upstash
Upstash
6 months
New blog! How to use QStash to decouple webhook data processing for guaranteed delivery. by @rubenpdegroot
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
1 month
🤔 20 minutes? that's longer than I expected.
@victorysokolov
Viktor Sokolov
1 month
@pwang_szn This is great advice. I encountered this when started implementing rate limits using Redis, had some issues with implementation then decided to switch to @upstash , took 20 minutes to set up everything without any problems 😁
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Enes Akar
8 months
@kiwicopple @supabase istanbul. high quality hotels, great food, beautiful bosporus
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
5 years
Why can’t a bot tick the "I'm not a robot" box?
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
10 years
HazelcastMQ: messaging layer over hazelcast by Mike Pilone http://t.co/9LnvNm5dEp
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 months
@mehulmpt Hi Mehul. You can easily understand our differences from Redis by comparing our bugs, logs, and compatibility. Moreover, we can legally prove it by sharing our codebase with authorities.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
16 days
success
@quentinlintz
Quentin
16 days
@upstash QStash is simply wonderful for background jobs! Up and running in a handful of minutes -- on a Sunday evening 😁
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
4 years
GitHub is now free for teams. Thank you @github and thank you @gitlab
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 years
MongoDB Atlas says `New serverless instances take between 1-3 minutes to provision.` 🤔🙄
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
8 years
Webinar: Security features of hazelcast by @aligurbuz , today:
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
5 years
If you want to give me 1 month trial for free, why do you need my credit card?
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Enes Akar
7 years
Hazelcast Release Jet, Open-Source Stream Processing Engine via @InfoQ
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Enes Akar
6 years
build your own faas onto your k8s cluster
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
3 years
Get started with Next.js Edge functions and Serverless Redis
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Enes Akar
3 years
One of the best moments of #nextjsconf is the chat between @kelseyhightower and @leeerob . And when they explain importance of the edge for the web.
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Enes Akar
2 years
@gokhansengun @ademilter @upstash Merhaba. Database'yi create ederken client ile ayni AWS regioni secerseniz, <1ms latency gorebiliyorsunuz. AWS elasticachedekine benzer latency degerleri aliyorsunuz.
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Enes Akar
1 year
@wesbos Upstash
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
6 months
@ademilter ciddiye alip onlari muhattap alman onlara deger katar. kendisi gibi olmayanlarin gorunur olmasindan aci duyan insanlarin icindeki kotuluk onlar icin ceza zaten. birak acilariyla basbasa kalsinlar.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
Creating a Kafka cluster looks like the simplest part of the article. Great post from @piotr_minkowski
@piotr_minkowski
Piotr Mińkowski
2 years
New blog post 💡 Deep Dive into Saga Transactions with Kafka Streams and Spring Boot 🍃 👉 this time we will implement the #SAGA pattern for #SpringBoot #microservices fully with #Kafka #streams without any external db and run Kafka on @upstash
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Enes Akar
3 years
@florinpop1705 Serverless Redis 👉 @upstash - price scales to zero - durable storage - max $120 cap price/month
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Enes Akar
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@rauchg cooking is underrated. you create something all family enjoy in an hour. great satisfaction.
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
Upstash on Fastly Compute 🚀
@upstash
Upstash
2 years
🥁 News: Upstash becomes database partner of Fastly Compute @Edge . #serverless #redis #kafka @fastly
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
Such improvements make our REST based clients fast and smooth for serverless.
@upstash
Upstash
2 years
🌟 New Post! Upstash SDKs keep your HTTP connections alive for the best performance in serverless functions.
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Enes Akar
1 year
I use chatgpt as my proofreader for my blog post:
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Enes Akar
3 months
@jerrinot @mtopolnik @AndreyPechkurov wow, very good news. why dont you plan your offsite in istanbul
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Enes Akar
7 years
Hazelcast as a Dynacache Provider
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
2 years
Sometimes, one life is more than one life. #Mahsa_Amini
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@enesakar
Enes Akar
10 years
Hazelcast with hundreds of clients - If you plan an hazelcast architecture scaling up to hundreds of... http://t.co/s0sviWT0Xy
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