When AI agent traces become application data
Say a test starts failing and a developer hands it to a coding agent. It digs into the relevant files, The post When AI agent traces become applicat…
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“You can rent a feature, but you can’t rent a foundation”: why MotherDuck bought the startup already powering its data pipelines
What do you do when a technology you’ve become dependent on belongs to someone else? You buy the startup behind The post “You can rent a featu…
Why real-time AI at scale is so hard
Real-time AI at scale is harder than it looks. Pipelines that hum along in development routinely hit problems in production. The post Why real-time…
AI agents can create database sprawl issues. YugabyteDB’s solution is more agents!
The next database scaling problem may not be how big a database gets, but how many databases an enterprise suddenly The post AI agents can create da…
Kubernetes made deploying easy. Nobody warned you about the databases.
The DevOps movement, set in motion nearly 20 years ago, broke down the traditional divide between software developers and IT The post Kubernetes mad…
Why smarter AI caching sometimes makes everything slower
Caching was one of the most critical optimizations in modern AI systems long before most teams realized it. Early prototypes The post Why smarter AI…
“The database is the product”: What breaks when memory devices scale
Imagine you just finished a two-hour meeting. You were wearing a small AI work companion that promised to capture the The post “The database i…
Why most AI projects fail: It’s infrastructure and people
AI trash-talkers love to rip on the technology for failing to produce meaningful business results, often pointing to studies like The post Why most…
Neoclouds, sovereign AI and Postgres: The new operating model for regulated enterprises
Inference is now the dominant force in enterprise AI — and with it has come an inconvenient reality: Data is The post Neoclouds, sovereign AI and Po…
The database storage problem is solved. Here’s what comes next.
For most of its 30-year history, Postgres has been viewed as a transactional database. Organizations trust it with customer records, The post The da…
Why AI retrieval and ranking need more than vector search
A recent GigaOm CxO Decision Brief explores how AI retrieval architectures are evolving beyond flat vector databases as organizations combine The po…
When your data model is the bottleneck: lessons from Medium’s feature store
“Keep readers reading” is the not-so-simple goal of Medium’s recommendations system. To predict what’s most likely to appeal…
For years, Apache Cassandra handed this work to your team — 6.0 takes it back
Apache Cassandra releases tend to be evaluated on roughly the same terms. What can it do now that it couldn’t The post For years, Apache Cassa…
Autonomous agents have met their biggest challenge yet: The database.
As large language models evolve from mere chatbots into autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and acting, they are beginning The post Au…
Why the need for humans won’t disappear in the age of autonomous databases
The promise of fully autonomous systems — databases that manage, heal, and optimize themselves amid rapidly increasing data stores — The…
Asana says its new AI “chief of staff” turns your Slack chaos into trackable work
Asana on Thursday unveiled an AI assistant called Dash and a new generation of what the company calls AI “teammates” The post Asana says…
Percona celebrates 20th birthday with new foundation — and a goat cake
Percona, which makes a popular open-source database-as-a-service (DBaaS), celebrated its 20th birthday this week with a rebrand, a new supporting Th…
Why MotherDuck refuses to fork DuckDB
During the recent MCP Dev Summit North America held in New York City, The New Stack sat down with Till The post Why MotherDuck refuses to fork DuckD…
How Jaeger hit 8.6× compression on 10 million spans with ClickHouse
As someone who’s been maintaining Jaeger, I’ve watched users request ClickHouse support consistently over the past few years. With Jaege…
Valkey just had a 17x year. Its lead maintainer still doesn’t want Redis to die.
Valkey 9.1 is now generally available with a focus on improved efficiency, modularity, and ecosystem tooling for production workloads.  At The…
Fivetran’s CPO: Closed data stacks won’t survive the agent era
An AI agent let loose on a data warehouse can run ten or a hundred times more queries than a The post Fivetran’s CPO: Closed data stacks won&#…
Why your AI agent doesn’t actually remember anything
A few months ago, I was reviewing a customer support agent who had a strange failure pattern. A user would The post Why your AI agent doesn’t…
ScyllaDB cut Sprig’s read latency 4X after Redis and ClickHouse hit a wall
“Just use Postgres” is the logical path for a startup figuring out product-market fit. But Sprig – an AI-powered product The post…