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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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Reimagining Platform Engagement with Graph Neural Networks
Mariia Bulycheva explains how Zalando utilized Graph Neural Networks to move beyond tabular data, modeling higher-order user-item interactions to optimize long-term engagement and click probability.
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Open Source, Community, and Consequence: the Story of MongoDB
Andrew Davidson and Akshat Vig share the "MongoDB Way", discussing how to disrupt a 50-year database legacy by leveraging the document model, community trust, and rapid, public iteration.
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How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton explains how Man Group built ArcticDB, a serverless database connecting directly to S3. He discusses using CRDTs to manage global state and leveraging immutable trees for atomicity.
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Vector Sync Patterns: Keeping AI Features Fresh When Your Data Changes
Ricardo Ferreira discusses five advanced Vector Sync Patterns to tackle multi-dimensional vector staleness & integration challenges in modern AI/microservices architectures.
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