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Key Takeaways Agents are becoming the primary database users, with fundame...

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available here.

Key Takeaways S3’s durability and global availability remove the need to co-locate data...

Key Takeaways Tail latency — not averages — is what breaks SLOs in distributed OLTP systems. Production clusters saw P999 drop from tens of seconds to sub-100ms after upgrading to TiDB 8.5, with no workload changes. The largest gains came from eliminating rare-but-catastrophic stalls: GC pauses, lock contention, and storage snapshot overhead. Ti...

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available here.

Key Takeaways Agentic systems need architectures built ...