Cloud infrastructure assumes workloads are uniform. Enterprise databases are the exception – and AI is making that tension more visible than ever.
The Cloud Is Built on Uniformity. Databases Are Not
Tag: Databases and Agentic AI
Databases were built for humans – users who read, think, and act with natural pauses between each step.
Agentic AI removes those pauses. It introduces continuous, high-frequency interaction with systems of record, often at a scale and speed those systems were never designed to handle.
This series explores what happens when those two worlds collide – what breaks, what changes, and what new architectural patterns begin to emerge.
Why We Spent 20 Years Protecting Databases from Analytics (and Why AI Just Broke That Truce)
For two decades, DBAs protected production databases from analytics workloads. AI agents have ended that truce and the consequences go deeper than most realise.
AI Doesn’t Read Dashboards… and That Changes Everything for Databases
AI agents bypass dashboards and query databases directly. This article explains what that means for the architecture of enterprise data systems and systems of record.
Databases Were Built for Humans – AI Agents Change the Equation
Databases were designed for human-paced interaction – sessions, think time and deliberate intent. AI agents remove all three assumptions simultaneously.
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