TJ Sweet

Corpo, but grew up Streetkid. Making my own kind of punk rock.

Joined on Feb 23, 2026

TJ Sweet

Mar 30

I’m looking for a small number of maintainers for NornicDB

#database #contributorswanted #github #sre

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TJ Sweet

Mar 29

The "Boxing In" Strategy: How Go is the Goldilocks Language for AI-Assisted Engineering

#go #agents #sre #llm

3 min read

TJ Sweet

Mar 26

~1ms hybrid graph + vector queries (network is now the bottleneck)

#ai #database #performance #rag

3 min read

TJ Sweet

Mar 25

Building a Low-Latency MVCC Graph+Vector Database: The Pitfalls That Actually Matter

#architecture #database #performance #systemdesign

3 min read

TJ Sweet

Mar 4

In the New Agentic World: The Software Career Ladder Is Being Rewritten

#discuss #careerdevelopment #ai #agents

4 min read

TJ Sweet

Mar 4

The Full Graph-RAG Stack As Declarative Pipelines in Cypher

#architecture #database #llm #rag

4 min read

TJ Sweet

Mar 2

Architectural Consolidation for Low-Latency Retrieval Systems: Why We Co-Located Transport, Embedding, Search, and Reranking

#vectordatabase #latency #scaling #knowledgegraph

4 min read

TJ Sweet

Feb 26

Cutting Cypher Latency: Streaming Traversal and Query-Shape Specialization in NornicDB

#algorithms #computerscience #database #performance

5 min read

TJ Sweet

Feb 23

How I sped up HNSW construction ~2.7x

#vectordatabase #hnsw #rag #indexing

4 min read

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I’m looking for a small number of maintainers for NornicDB

Want to connect with TJ Sweet?

The "Boxing In" Strategy: How Go is the Goldilocks Language for AI-Assisted Engineering

~1ms hybrid graph + vector queries (network is now the bottleneck)

Building a Low-Latency MVCC Graph+Vector Database: The Pitfalls That Actually Matter

In the New Agentic World: The Software Career Ladder Is Being Rewritten

The Full Graph-RAG Stack As Declarative Pipelines in Cypher

Architectural Consolidation for Low-Latency Retrieval Systems: Why We Co-Located Transport, Embedding, Search, and Reranking

Cutting Cypher Latency: Streaming Traversal and Query-Shape Specialization in NornicDB

How I sped up HNSW construction ~2.7x