Episode 25: Ep 20: Future of Cloud-Native Data Services with AI and Agents
Sergey Pronin, founder of Solanica and former Percona engineer, joins the panel to discuss why the SaaS-only data model is fracturing. The conversation covers 'Dark Matter Data' trapped inside enterprises, treating databases like cattle on Kubernetes, API-driven self-service provisioning, and why donating Open Everest to the CNCF matters for license-stable infrastructure.
Special Guests
Sergey Pronin
Founder of Solanica and former Percona engineer, building Open Everest — a Kubernetes-native platform for running databases as portable, self-service infrastructure.
Timestamps
00:00Intro: The intersection of Cloud-Native Data and AI Agents01:04Meet Sergey Pronin: From Percona to Founding Solanica02:20The 'Lego Mindset': Building interchangeable infrastructure blocks06:09Data as Fuel: Why 80% of valuable data is 'Dark Matter'08:52The Risk of Model Collapse11:35The Resurgence of Postgres13:06Building on Open Everest and the Sovereign AI niche15:21Databases as Containers: Portability without vendor lock-in16:59Persistence on Kubernetes: Treating databases like cattle18:26Decoupling storage and compute21:15When Agents Control the Data: API-driven provisioning26:37Internal Development Platforms (IDPs) and private RAG33:48Short-term vs. Long-term Memory for agents35:08The 'Internet of Agents'38:12The Reliability Threshold: Trusting an agent42:53Open Source Strategy: Donating Open Everest to the CNCF46:28Building Community: The 'Two Bucket' approach50:56Closing ThoughtsRelated Episodes
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