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The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon showed AI agents built with Elastic tools to solve real-world problems. Winners include PHAROS (drug safety in <60s), Gauntlet (adversarial testing), and a duplicate detection agent for Kenya’s HIV…
The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon spotlighted Gauntlet, a top-three project that uses mocking agents to mutate tool calls, expose hidden failures, and improve AI agent reliability.
PHAROS is a 4-agent system built with Elasticsearch that automates pharmacovigilance. It detects adverse drug safety signals using WHO-standard analysis, generates regulatory reports, and sends critical alerts in under 60 seconds.
Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton, run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU. Its integrated data lake query engine supports open table formats such as…
Three major cloud platforms just shipped Postgres with custom storage engines and scale-out architectures.
Google's managed PostgreSQL returns to first principles: a conventional instance on a VM with a regional disk, plus a distinctive data cache on Enterprise Plus…
At HumanX, Ryan is joined by Philip Rathle, CTO at Neo4j to discuss what knowledge context means for AI agents, how limitations like stale training data make the model-only approach to agents a bad fit for enterprise environments, and how…
PostgreSQL 18 splits autovacuum configuration to finally let you tune worker concurrency without restarting.
Deploy ParadeDB on Render with one click. Full-text search, vector search, and hybrid search over Postgres — now available on your favorite cloud platform.
Bit of a news catchup on the pg_clickhouse project. What’s New First up, a couple weeks ago the ClickHouse Blog published What’s New in pg_clickhouse, in which I covered various improvements to the extension: We’ve been gratified by the…
A beginner’s guide to encrypting your database connections “’SSL is enabled’ and ‘SSL is actually working’ are two very different things.” 1. What is SSL, and why does a database need it? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. Its successor…
PostgreSQL 19 finally lets wal_level adapt dynamically to your actual replication slots, eliminating the always-on WAL cost of logical standby insurance.
