Traditional Approach...

You’re staring at a slow query. You know it needs optimization. But which approach? Add an index? Rewrite the logic? Use caching?

Traditionally, you’d:

1. Make a guess
2. Test it (30 minutes to copy the database)
3. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t
4. Repeat 5-10 times
5. Hope you found the best solution

Total time: 3-5 hours. Best outcome: uncertain.

ParallelProof flips this on its head: What if 100 AI agents could test 100 different strategies at the exact same time, each with a full copy of your production database, and tell you which one wins—all in under 3 minutes?

That’s not science fiction. That’s Tiger Data’s Agentic Postgres + zero-copy forks + multi-agent orchestration.

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The Problem: Code Optimization is Painfully Sequential

Traditional Approach:
───────────────────────────────────────────────────
Try Strategy 1 → Wait 30min → Test → Analyze
↓
Try Strategy 2 → Wait 30min → Test → Analyze
↓
Try Strategy 3 → Wait 30min → Test → Analyze
───────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total: 90+ minutes for just 3 attempts

The bottleneck isn’t thinking—it’s testing. Each experiment requires:

• Copying production database (5-10 minutes)
• Running tests safely
• Cleaning up
• Starting over

By attempt #3, you’re frustrated. By attempt #5, you’ve given up and shipped whatever “worked.”

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The Breakthrough: Zero-Copy Forks Change Everything

Tiger’s Agentic Postgres uses copy-on-write storage to create database forks in 2-3 seconds. Not minutes. Seconds.

Tiger's Approach:
───────────────────────────────────────────────────
Main Database (10GB)
│
┌─────────────────┼─────────────────┐
│                 │                 │
Fork 1            Fork 2            Fork N
(2 sec)           (2 sec)           (2 sec)
~0GB              ~0GB              ~0GB
───────────────────────────────────────────────────
Storage: 10GB (not 10GB × N)
Time: 2-3 seconds per fork (not 5-10 minutes)

How? Fluid Storage’s copy-on-write only stores changes, not duplicates. Your 10GB database becomes 100 test environments without consuming 1TB of storage.

This single innovation unlocks what was impossible before: true parallel experimentation.

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Enter ParallelProof: 100 Agents, 100 Strategies, 3 Minutes

Here’s what happens when you paste slow code into ParallelProof:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  User: "Optimize this slow SQL query"          │
└─────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│   Fork Creation (5 sec)     │
│   100 forks, parallel       │
└─────────────┬───────────────┘
│
┌─────────┴─────────┐
│                   │
▼                   ▼
┌──────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐
│  Agent 1-20  │    │  Agent 21-40 │  ... Agent 81-100
│  Database    │    │  Algorithmic │      Memory
│  Strategy    │    │  Strategy    │      Strategy
└──────────────┘    └──────────────┘
│                   │
└─────────┬─────────┘
▼
┌──────────────────────┐
│  Real-time Results   │
│  Best: 47% faster    │
│  Strategy: Composite │
│           Index      │
└──────────────────────┘

The 6 Strategy Categories

Each agent specializes in one optimization approach:

1. Database (Agents 1-17): Indexes, query rewriting, JOIN optimization
2. Algorithmic (Agents 18-34): Time complexity reduction (O(n²) → O(n log n))
3. Caching (Agents 35-50): LRU, Redis, memoization
4. Data Structures (Agents 51-67): HashMap lookups, efficient collections
5. Parallelization (Agents 68-84): async/await, concurrent execution
6. Memory (Agents 85-100): Generators, streaming, resource optimization

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How It Actually Works: The Technical Magic

1. Hybrid Search Finds Relevant Patterns

Before optimizing, agents search 10+ years of Stack Overflow, GitHub, and Postgres docs using BM25 + vector embeddings:

-- BM25 for keyword matching
SELECT * FROM optimization_patterns
WHERE description @@ 'slow JOIN performance'

-- Vector search for semantic similarity
SELECT * FROM optimization_patterns
ORDER BY embedding <=> query_embedding

-- Reciprocal Rank Fusion merges results
-- (Best of both worlds)

Why hybrid? BM25 catches exact terms (“composite index”). Vectors catch concepts (“query performance”).

2. Zero-Copy Forks Create Isolated Playgrounds

# Traditional: 10GB database, 10 minutes
CREATE DATABASE fork AS COPY OF production;

# Tiger: 10GB database, 2 seconds
tiger service fork prod-db --last-snapshot

Each agent gets a complete, isolated production environment:

• Full schema
• All data
• All indexes
• Zero storage cost (only changes stored)

3. Gemini Generates Optimized Code

Each agent sends its strategy + context to Google Gemini 2.0:

prompt = f"""
Strategy: {strategy.name}
Code: {user_code}
Relevant patterns: {search_results}

Return JSON:
{{
"optimized_code": "...",
"improvement": "47%",
"explanation": "Added composite index..."
}}
"""

result = gemini.optimize(prompt)

4. Real-Time Dashboard Tracks Progress

WebSocket streams live updates:

⚡ Fork 1: Testing database indexes... ✅ 32% improvement
⚡ Fork 2: Testing algorithm complexity... ✅ 19% improvement
⚡ Fork 3: Testing caching strategy... ✅ 47% improvement ← WINNER

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Show Me the Code: Implementation Highlights

Backend: Agent Orchestrator

async def run_optimization(code: str, num_agents: int = 100):
# 1. Create forks (parallel, 5 seconds total)
fork_manager = ForkManager("production-db")
forks = await fork_manager.create_parallel_forks(num_agents)

# 2. Assign strategies
agents = [
AgentOptimizer(i, forks[i], STRATEGIES[i % 6])
for i in range(num_agents)
]

# 3. Run optimizations (parallel, ~2 minutes)
results = await asyncio.gather(*[
agent.optimize(code) for agent in agents
])

# 4. Pick winner
best = max(results, key=lambda r: r['improvement_percent'])

# 5. Cleanup forks
await fork_manager.cleanup_forks(forks)

return best

Frontend: Real-Time Visualization

function Dashboard() {
const [results, setResults] = useState([]);

useEffect(() => {
const ws = new WebSocket(`ws://api/task/${taskId}`);
ws.onmessage = (msg) => {
const result = JSON.parse(msg.data);
setResults(prev => [...prev, result]);
};
}, []);

return (
<div className="grid grid-cols-3 gap-4">
{results.map(r => (
<AgentCard
strategy={r.strategy}
improvement={r.improvement_percent}
/>
))}
</div>
);
}

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Performance That Actually Matters

Metric	Traditional	ParallelProof	Improvement
Fork creation	5-10 min	2-3 sec	100-200× faster
Total time	40-60 min	2-3 min	20-30× faster
Storage (100 tests)	1TB+	~10GB	90% reduction
Success rate	~40%	~85%	Better outcomes

Real developer experience:

• Before: Try 3-5 strategies, hope one works, ship uncertain code
• After: Test 100 strategies, pick proven winner, ship with confidence

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The Tiger Agentic Postgres Secret Sauce

ParallelProof wouldn’t exist without these Tiger features:

1. Fluid Storage

Copy-on-write block storage that makes forks instant and cheap. 110,000+ IOPS sustaining massive parallel workloads.

2. Tiger MCP Server

10+ years of Postgres expertise built into prompt templates. Agents don’t just optimize—they optimize correctly.

3. pg_textsearch + pgvectorscale

Native BM25 and vector search inside Postgres. No external services, no latency overhead.

4. Tiger CLI

tiger service fork prod --now  # 2 seconds
tiger service delete fork-123  # instant cleanup

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Real-World Impact: What This Enables

For Solo Developers

• Test 100 ideas in 3 minutes instead of 50 hours
• Ship faster with proven optimizations
• Never fear production testing again

For Teams

• Parallel A/B testing on real data
• Safe migration testing before Friday deploys
• Reproducible debugging environments

For AI Agents

• Autonomous optimization without human supervision
• Multi-strategy exploration (not just one guess)
• Production-safe experimentation

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Try It Yourself: 5-Minute Quickstart

# 1. Install Tiger CLI
curl -fsSL https://cli.tigerdata.com | sh
tiger auth login

# 2. Create free database
tiger service create my-db

# 3. Clone ParallelProof
git clone https://github.com/vivekjami/parallelproof
cd parallelproof

# 4. Install dependencies
uv sync && .venv\Script\activate

# 5. Run in the backend and frontend
npm install && npm run dev

Paste your slow code. Watch 100 agents optimize it. Pick the winner.

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What’s Next: The Future is Parallel

ParallelProof is just the beginning. With zero-copy forks, we can build:

• Multi-agent testing frameworks (100 test suites, parallel)
• AI-powered database design (agents explore schema options)
• Continuous optimization pipelines (agents improve code in production)
• Collaborative debugging (agents replay production bugs in forks)

The constraint was never creativity. It was infrastructure.

Tiger’s Agentic Postgres removed that constraint.

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Join the Challenge

ParallelProof is our submission to the Agentic Postgres Challenge.

Free tier. No credit card.

What will you build when 100 agents can work simultaneously?

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Resources

• GitHub: github.com/vivekjami/parallelproof
• Tiger Docs: docs.tigerdata.com
• Challenge: dev.to/agentic-postgres-challenge

Some Pictures

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The Bottom Line

Code optimization used to be:

• Time-consuming (hours of sequential testing)
• Risky (production data + experiments = danger)
• Uncertain (did I find the best solution?)

Now it’s:

• Fast (3 minutes for 100 strategies)
• Safe (zero-copy forks = zero risk)
• Confident (data-driven, proven winner)

All because Tiger’s Agentic Postgres made parallel experimentation actually possible.

The question isn’t “Can 100 agents optimize better than one?”

The question is “Why would you ever use just one again?”

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Built with ❤️ for the Agentic Postgres Challenge Powered by Tiger Data’s zero-copy forks, Gemini AI, and way too much coffee ☕