Ajay Kulkarni

A Brief History of AI: How Did We Get Here, and What's Next?

16 Jul 2024 28 min read

Can the history of AI unveil more about its evolution, innovations, and impact? Timescale’s CEO, Ajay Kulkarni, reflects on AI’s past and future. (Part 1)

Postgres: The Birdhorse of Databases

4 Jun 2024 4 min read

Why Postgres is such a unique beast in the database world, and how that makes it the perfect database for, well, everything.

Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data

8 May 2024 14 min read

PostgreSQL has emerged as the de facto database standard. Here is why this is happening and why it matters.

Building the Best PostgreSQL GUI: Announcing Our Acquisition of PopSQL

4 Apr 2024 8 min read

The PopSQL team joins Timescale to help build the best PostgreSQL developer experience for the cloud era.

How We Are Building a Self-Sustaining Open-Source Business in the Cloud Era

13 Mar 2024 8 min read

Learn how we are building an open-source business in the cloud and why we added the Timescale License.

How to Simulate a Basic IoT Sensor Dataset on PostgreSQL

28 Dec 2023 4 min read

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to simulate a basic IoT dataset that you can deploy with PostgreSQL or TimescaleDB.

Time-Series Data: What It Is, and How to Use It

23 Aug 2023 7 min read

Learn what time-series data is and why it’s valuable. Plus, real examples of time-series data.

Announcing the New Timescale

17 May 2023 5 min read

Read how we are building a database company in the cloud era (version 3) and becoming a cloud company with a database product along the way.

Time-Series Analysis: Function Examples

13 Apr 2023 5 min read

Learn how to make time-series analysis easier with a few functions.

Year of the Tiger: 12 (and Then Some) Timescale Highlights of 2022

22 Dec 2022 14 min read

Join us in celebrating 12 highlights of 2022 (and then some), including launches like one-click forking and replicas, our consumption-based, bottomless object store in Timescale, and the return of in-person events (great to see you!).

Year of the Tiger: $110 million to build the future of data for developers worldwide

22 Feb 2022 8 min read

Timescale just raised $110 million in our Series C, led by Tiger Global alongside all existing investors: Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, Icon Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures.

Timescale flies when you’re having fun: 2021 in review

22 Dec 2021 5 min read

We're celebrating the accomplishments that made us proud in 2021.

$40 Million to Help Developers Measure Everything That Matters

5 May 2021 13 min read

We're excited to announce that we've a raised $40M Series B, led by Redpoint Ventures, to help developers measure everything that matters – and we're celebrating the news with 10+ launches over the next month 🚀

How We Are Building a Self-Sustaining Open-Source Business in the Cloud Era (Version 2)

24 Sep 2020 12 min read

Learn how (and why) we're making all of our features 100% free and investing in our community—while still building a sustainable open-source business.

Timescale stands with the Black community

5 Jun 2020 3 min read

Timescale stands with the Black community. Timescale stands against racism and hate.

How we’re building a remote-first team culture (aka virtual event ideas that you’re welcome to steal)

6 May 2020 9 min read

As an engineering-centric organization that’s been 60%+ remote for most of our history, we’re creative with the ways we stay connected – and, with COVID-19 making us and all teams 100% remote, we’re sharing how we’ve created camaraderie to help you do the same.

Time-Series Compression Algorithms, Explained

22 Apr 2020 13 min read

Delta-delta encoding, Simple-8b, XOR-based compression, and more - these algorithms aren't magic, but combined they can save over 90% of storage costs and speed up queries. Here’s how they work.

How to Install psql on Mac, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows

22 Aug 2019 3 min read

psql is the standard command line interface for interacting with a PostgreSQL or TimescaleDB instance. Here are instructions on how to get psql setup on a variety of operating systems.

Why SQL is beating NoSQL and what this means for the future of data

8 Jul 2019 11 min read

After years of being left for dead, SQL today is making a comeback. How come? And what effect will this have on the data community?

Timescale raises another $15M for its leading time-series SQL database and introduces an enterprise offering

29 Jan 2019 6 min read

Icon Ventures leads a new round of funding for Timescale to develop the foundational technology for businesses storing, analyzing, and acting on time-series data

How We Are building a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era

19 Dec 2018 9 min read

Today, we are announcing that we have started developing new open-code (or source-available) features that will be made available under the (also new) Timescale License (TSL). You will be able to follow the development of these features on our GitHub.

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