This podcast features an interview with Sualeh Asif, CTO and co-founder of Cursor, focusing on the company's infrastructure and scaling challenges. The conversation begins with a discussion of Cursor's scale (100 million model calls daily) and then delves into the three core pillars of its infrastructure: indexing systems, models, and the product experience itself. Sualeh details two major incidents, one involving a flawed indexing system and a subsequent migration to Postgres, and another concerning database storage limits requiring a complete refactor to object storage. A key takeaway is the importance of choosing simpler database solutions for scalability and the unexpected role of a co-founder in rapidly resolving critical incidents through refactoring.
