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Mike Freedman

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Mike Freedman

@michaelfreedman

Co-founder/CTO, @TigerDatabase / @TimescaleDB 🐯🦄. Professor, @PrincetonCS. Distributed systems, databases, AI, security, networking.

Princeton || NYC

Joined March 2009

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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Mar 18
Introducing TigerFS - a filesystem backed by PostgreSQL, and a filesystem interface to PostgreSQL. Idea is simple: Agents don't need fancy APIs or SDKs, they love the file system. ls, cat, find, grep. Pipelined UNIX tools. So let’s make files transactional and concurrent by
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Nov 9, 2025
When you've known your cofounder for >25 years.
Ajay Kulkarni
@acoustik
Nov 9, 2025
how it started (1997) how it's going (2019) how it's going (2025) @michaelfreedman
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Feb 11, 2024
Yes. Just use @PostgreSQL for everything!
Just Use Postgres for Everything
From amazingcto.com
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Oct 29, 2025
I just published a deep technical dive on Fluid Storage, our new disaggregated block storage layer for Postgres. It comes from years of running one of the largest managed Postgres fleets in the world (outside of the hyperscalers), serving thousands of customers and seeing the
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Oct 21, 2025
Today's a big day. We’re announcing Agentic Postgres, and kicking off two weeks of launches around it. 🚀 This one's special for me -- a big step toward what we think the future of data infrastructure looks like in the age of AI. Agentic Postgres is the first database built
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
May 6, 2023
Universities with the highest net CS PhD stipends in the U.S., accounting for cost of living. @Princeton #1. 🏆 csstipendrankings.org
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
May 14, 2025
Big news in the world of databases: @databricks is acquiring @Neon. The connection makes sense: Neon’s approach to serverless Postgres has really clicked with a new class of agentic and short-lived workloads, especially during development. Huge congrats to the Neon team
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Oct 29, 2020
🥳 Today’s the day! TimescaleDB 2.0 RC has arrived 🚀 Multi-node. Petabyte-scale. Relational. Purpose-built for time-series. 💯 free. Get started and learn what's new👇 tsdb.co/get-timescale-… 1/
Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Aug 8, 2020
Random weekend musing: The longer I spend in industry (startup land), the more I want my academic work to tackle more big picture / visionary problems. But peer review and top conferences highly optimize for thorough, quantifiable results (esp. performance in systems).
Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Nov 12, 2025
Fun internal engineering presentation at @TigerDatabase yesterday from TJ, the engineer leading pg_textsearch. pg_textsearch is a new Postgres extension that brings BM25 keyword search natively to Postgres -- built from the ground up using Postgres' index access method
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Mar 5, 2020
Given the continued risk and spread of #coronavirus, @PrincetonCS has proactively cancelled its in-person PhD Visit Day (Mar 26-27), and will instead hold a fully virtual event. We hope other schools will broadly follow suit for the health and well-being of our community.
Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Oct 18, 2024
Database team on fire! Who said you gotta choose between either fast point queries (indexes) or fast aggregations (vectorized columnar scans)? @TimescaleDB now gives you both. 2.18 will ship with a new table access method for our hypercore storage engine. 🔥🔥🔥
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Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
May 12, 2019
Sunday morning musing for #academics: what do you wish somebody told you / you knew when just starting as a professor.
Mike Freedman
@michaelfreedman
Jun 17, 2025
Timescale is now TigerData. This is an exciting day for us. Over the past 8 years, we’ve grown to power a large range of modern, operational workloads. Beyond time-series and sensor data, we’re powering developer tools, SaaS applications, AI-native games, RAG applications, and
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