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The AI Agent Harness: Where Vendor Lock-in Went After the Model Became Swappable

An AI agent harness is everything between the model API and the business outcome. Models became swappable, so vendor lock-in…

1 month ago

OceanBase vs. Databricks vs. Snowflake: Which AI Database for Transactional Workloads, Analytics, and AI Agents?

Every vendor now sells an AI database. This deep dive compares OceanBase with Databricks and Snowflake across transactions, analytics, and…

2 months ago

Trusted Agentic AI Landscape Q3 2026: Enterprise Vendor Selection, Sovereignty, and Lock-in

The Q3 2026 edition of the Trusted Agentic AI Landscape maps enterprise AI vendors on two axes, trust and lock-in,…

2 months ago

Why I Joined Kestra: Enterprise Workflow Orchestration for the Agentic AI Era

Enterprises run separate tools for IT scheduling, data pipelines, business processes, and infrastructure. None talk to each other. Modernization and…

3 months ago

Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache Flink: What It Is and When (Not) to Use It

Complex Event Processing is the most underused capability in Apache Flink. It detects meaningful event sequences in real time, fires…

6 months ago

When (Not) to Use Queues for Kafka?

Apache Kafka has long been the foundation for real-time data streaming. With the release of Queues for Kafka (QfK) in…

9 months ago

Kafka Proxy Demystified: Use Cases, Benefits, and Trade-offs

A Kafka proxy adds centralized security and governance for Apache Kafka. Solutions like Kroxylicious, Conduktor, and Confluent enable encryption, access…

12 months ago

Scaling Kafka Consumers: Proxy vs. Client Library for High-Throughput Architectures

Apache Kafka’s pull-based model and decoupled architecture offer unmatched flexibility for event-driven systems. But as data volumes and consumer applications…

1 year ago

The Future of Data Streaming with Apache Flink for Agentic AI

Agentic AI is moving into production. Autonomous, tool-using, goal-driven systems that need real-time data and context. Apache Kafka and Flink…

1 year ago

­­The Rise of the Durable Execution Engine (Temporal, Restate) in an Event-driven Architecture (Apache Kafka)

Durable execution engines like Temporal and Restate are redefining how developers orchestrate long-running, stateful workflows in distributed systems. Unlike traditional…

1 year ago