Hey there! Here's a cool fact to think about: on Databricks' Lakebase service, AI agents are cranking out about four times as many databases as human users these days. Crazy, right? But that's not some far-off prediction—it's happening right now!
Databricks recently dropped a really insightful take on what this means for how we manage databases. Here's the deal:
Software development is becoming way more about evolution and less about a straight line. Agents are trying out variations, testing them, and getting it done at a speed that's like 100 to 1000 times faster than the old-school ways. The Lakebase systems even show some projects going over 500 branching iterations deep!
The cost game is totally different. Like, half of the databases agents create are done computing in under 10 seconds. So any setup with fixed costs just doesn't cut it anymore. Scale-to-zero is a must now.
Open systems are kind of a no-brainer now. Agents play nicely with tools like Postgres because they're all over their training data. Proprietary databases? Not so much—they're not really keeping up in this new agent-driven world.
Lakebase is built exactly with these ideas in mind: super-fast copy-on-write branching for next to nothing, real serverless flexibility, and open Postgres storage right on the data lake.
For our friends in Bangladesh who are building on Databricks, this is a big hint about where data management is heading. Things we thought were just nice bonuses like being quick on our feet, keeping costs low, and staying open, are now must-haves!
Check out the full post at the link below.
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