Zero-Downtime Patching in Lakebase Part 1: Prewarming
DatabricksLakehouseAI
Ensuring customer databases are always available is one of the most important things we do in Lakebase...
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Airbnb Rebuilt Alert Development After Discovering It Wasn’t a Culture Problem
AIData PlatformModern Data Stack
Airbnb has revealed how it significantly improved its observability practices by rethinking how alerts are developed and validated, concluding that what appeared to be a "culture problem" was actually a tooling and wo...
VCs are betting billions on AI’s next wave, so why is OpenAI killing Sora?
AIData PlatformModern Data Stack
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI...
Inside Agoda’s Storefront: A Latency-Aware Reverse Proxy for Improving DNS Based Load D...
AIData PlatformModern Data Stack
Agoda engineers developed Storefront, a Rust-based S3-compatible reverse proxy that improves load balancing, request routing, and observability across large-scale object storage systems. The proxy addresses DNS-based...
How to build production-ready AI agents with Google-managed MCP servers
GCPAnalytics EngineeringModern Data Stack
As developers build AI agents with more sophisticated reasoning systems, they require higher-quality fuel–in the form of enterprise data and specialized tools–to drive real business value. To get the most out of tha...
Five techniques to reach the efficient frontier of LLM inference
GCPAnalytics EngineeringModern Data Stack
Every dollar that you spend on model inference buys you a position on a graph of latency and throughput. On this plot is a curve of optimal configurations, where you've squeezed the maximum possible performance from y...