Tyler Benfield

@rtbenfield.dev

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I make databases fast. Staff Software Engineer at Prisma

Delta Airlines gate screen showing a destination of Miami

Windows task manager snippet showing yaak-app.exe and yaaknode.exe with the Arm64 architecture.

All Things Open speaker card for Tyler Benfield, Staff Software Engineer at Prisma. The All Things Open astronaut is in the foreground next to the dates October 12-14 and the location Raleigh, NC USA.

Airplane view of bay area hills peaking out from a dense fog. The sunrise is peaking in from the left of the shot but not directly visible. The sky is clear and blue above the hills and fog

A laptop with create-db.prisma.io open in front of a view overlooking the San Francisco bay. The sky is partially cloudy and the water is still. Oakland is visible on the other side of the bay with ships in the port

The great salt lake from the view of an airplane window as it is coming in to land. Mountains are visible in the background along with a cloudy sunset

A home garden viewed from a corner angle. Raised garden beds growing tomato, pepper, and okra plants are in the foreground. A long, walk through trellis is in the background with beans and cucumbers beginning to climb the sides. Behind them are blueberry and blackberry bushes.

View from the SLC airport lobby windows that stretch floor to ceiling. Chairs are lined in front of the windows. A series of Delta airplanes are visible with a mountain backdrop.

Devon Neil on stage at Epic Web Conf live vibe coding

Alex Anderson on stage at Epic Web Conf with the title of his talk "The Weird Web" on the screen in the background

Andre Landgraf on stage at Epic Web Conf

A slide from Aaron Francis's talk at Epic Web Conf with the words "it's not fair that..." struck out and replaced with "since it's true that..."

Aaron Francis on stage at Epic Web Conf with the title of his talk "Epic Bets: Practical tips for betting on yourself" on the screen in the background

Annie Sexton on stage at Epic Web Conf. The screen in the background shows the title of her talk, "JavaScript: The Origin Story"

Kent C. Dodds on stage at Epic Web Conf presenting "Of things Epic"

Taylor Desseyn and Bree Hall on stage kicking off Epic Web Conf. Taylor is wearing a blue space themed jumpsuit and Bree is wearing a similar jumpsuit in white.

Selfie walking through the SLC airport. Not much of a crowd. Sun is still setting through the windows in the background.

Poe Dameron's black X-wing starfighter on display in Galaxy's Edge

Drake meme giving the hand to "paying for 100,000 reads because you forgot an index" and a finger wave of approval to "paying a flat rate per query"

$Example code snippet of experimental Postgres driver in TypeScript. ``` await using connection = await client.connect(); const { readable } = await connection.send( `START_REPLICATION SLOT "my_replication_slot" LOGICAL 0/0 (proto_version '1', publication_names 'my_publication', binary)`, ); const stream = readable.pipeThrough( new PgoutputDecoderStream(defaultBinaryTypeParser), ); for await (const event of stream) { console.log(event); /** { type: 'insert', lsn: 51933232n, schema: 'public', relation: 'Table_ce7e1bcbcc8f40439fe454ac3a0e6d9c', timestamp: 2025-02-02T18:39:42.061Z, inserted: { id: '3d1a36de-d926-44e7-8d15-fc42394ea97b', text: '18016bab-68bd-4c20-972a-7d1b5a8a2ffa' } } */ } ```$