Operational Database Management Systems
Q1. You moved from managing databases at a Belgian university to becoming a dedicated MySQL DBA, then to consulting at Pythian, and now to supporting large enterprise customers running MySQL at scale at PlanetScale....
Q1. At Kepler, your team focuses on “separating what AI does well from what code does well” to ensure absolute ground truth. In the context of financial services—where a misplaced decimal point can break a...
Q1. You and Dr. Monideepa Roy argue for a mechanism-agnostic definition of intelligence — one based not on how a system is built, but on what it demonstrably does: perceive, predict, learn, adapt, collaborate, and...
InterSystems Impact Award 2026 | Winning Category: Financial Services Q1: What makes the new Tafnit platform by Matrix stand out in the world of ERP innovation? A1: Matrix’s TaaS (Tafnit-as-a-Service) is a cutting-edge, cloud-native SaaS...
Q1. Kartik, you have built massive data infrastructures at both LinkedIn and Pinterest. As we transition from traditional software engineering to “Agentic Engineering,” how do the core competencies of a top-tier engineer change when...
Q1. Can you tell us about the Center for United Nations Constitutional Research (CUNCR) — its origins, its focus on UN Charter reform and multilateral institutional design, and why a think tank grounded in constitutional...
Q1. zHealth has delivered projects across NT Health, NSW Health, Mater, SWARH, and Austin Health, very different healthcare organisations with very different legacy systems, governance structures, and clinical priorities. When you go into a...
Q1. How does the QNX OS for Safety microkernel architecture isolate deterministic, safety-critical motor control paths — from a laparoscopic grasper’s continuous force feedback to an orthopedic bone mill’s rigid haptic boundaries — from unpredictable processing spikes...
Q1 Your white paper (*) makes a compelling case that traditional Flash Translation Layers (FTLs) – whether vendor-provided or open-source – fundamentally conflict with real-time database requirements. Can you explain the specific mechanisms by...
Q1. You and Riina Koris chose the title The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly deliberately — a framing that signals a refusal to take either the optimistic or the catastrophist position that dominates most public discourse...