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From S3 to GPU in One Copy: Rethinking Data Loading for ML Training
Onur Satici discusses Vortex, an open-source columnar file format designed to bypass CPU bottlenecks, enabling ultra-fast S3-to-GPU data streaming and dynamic query pruning at up to 60 Gbps.
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Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI
Ricardo Ferreira explains how context engineering overcomes LLM latency, cost, and memory limitations in AI systems, sharing architectural lessons from building a custom Alexa backend with Redis.
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From Fab To Token - The State Of The Market
Jordan Nanos explains how hardware constraints, data center scale, and chip co-design shape modern AI performance and tokenomics from silicon to inference.
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From Models to Agents: Building Context-Aware Consumer AI at Scale at DoorDash
Sudeep Das explains how DoorDash transforms e-commerce recommendations using LLM-driven semantic consumer memory, hierarchical semantic IDs, grounded agentic search, and multi-tiered LLM ranking.
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From ms to µs: OSS Valkey Architecture Patterns for Modern AI
Dumanshu Goyal explains how moving from proxied architectures to direct access in Redis/Valkey slashes tail latency to microseconds, lowers costs, and eliminates single points of failure.
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Parting the Clouds: the Rise of Disaggregated Systems
Murat Demirbas explains how cloud economics drive compute-storage disaggregation in modern database architectures. He shares insights on network bottlenecks, Paxos origins, and future tech.
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Compiling Workflows into Databases: the Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li explain how to replace complex external orchestrators with DBOS Transact, an open-source library that implements durable workflow execution directly inside your database.
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Postgres for Production Agents: Your Relational Foundation for Enterprise AI
Gwen Shapira discusses how to power enterprise AI features using Postgres, explaining advanced relational SQL context retrieval, pgvector semantic tuning, and transitioning to agentic workflows.
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Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service
Alina Krasavina discusses how Delivery Hero built an in-house tracking platform to replace Google Analytics. She explains their architecture, load testing, and how they cut storage costs by 75%.
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Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel explain why they outgrew traditional CDC at scale. They share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) using a proxy layer to decouple data replication.
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Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey
Viktor Vedmich explains how to achieve sub-millisecond application latency using Valkey, an open-source, high-performance in-memory fork of Redis supported by AWS.
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Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing
Jimmy Morzaria explains how Stripe scales its MongoDB infrastructure to process $1.4 trillion in payments. He shares the engineering behind their zero-downtime data movement platform and DocDB.
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