flâneur

Mooncake Blog: but, my Postgres (+ lakehouse) is free

mooncake.dev · 103 words · saved by 1 readers

Disclaimer: Your Postgres and Lakehouse are free and open too. You don’t need to be (or spend) a giant to use them. Agents need memory. Both working memory and longer-term knowledge. Working memory has to be instant, reliable, and accurate, just like app state.What’s the best place to store it? Postgres. That’s true for both apps and agents. This state is typically tied to an individual user, tenant, or agent. Longer-term knowledge is different. The raw inputs are massive, messy, and shared across users, tenants, and agents—logs, LLM inputs and outputs, interactions. The goal is to ‘get smarter’. What’s the best way to store these raw inputs? A lakehouse. Infinitely scalable, object store-centric, and open to the best tools/engines for processing, analytics, search, MLOps, all available on the same data. And you’re only paying for what you’re using. The classic “data engineering” pipeline was about extracting insights and intelligence from app data to make apps smarter, stickier, and b

One database for AI, apps and agents Lakebase is serverless Postgres for applications that scale THE DATABRICKS DATA + AI PLATFORM Build and run apps, agents and AI on your data The Databricks Data + AI Platform Unify your data, analytics and AI. Use it to power agents, apps and natural language insights. FEATURED PRODUCTSPROVEN IMPACT How innovators win with data and AI AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Recognized for innovation in data and AI 0% Over 60% of the Fortune 500 uses Databricks 0K+ Over 20,000 customers across the globe 0x 5x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Reports…

saved by

related reading