Itay Braun
@itaybraun
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Building the Dynatrace DB observability solution. Previously: Founder of Metis (acquired by Dynatrace) and SkyGiraffe (acquired by ServiceNow).
Haifa, Israel
Joined April 2010
"...Here's the key insight: Agents don't run inside applications. They run through data. Every reasoning step reads data. Every decision writes data. Every action updates state. The data layer isn't something agents interact with — it's the medium they exist in..."
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There’s a new tool called `llmfit` that checks your hardware and tells you exactly which models will run well before you download anything.
🚨 The #1 problem with local AI is now solved. There’s a new tool called `llmfit` that checks your hardware and tells you exactly which models will run well before you download anything. It literally grades your hardware’s capability for every model: 🟩 Perfect Fit: Fully runs
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Unofficial Python API and agentic skill for Google NotebookLM. Full programmatic access to NotebookLM's features including capabilities the web UI doesn't expose via Python, CLI, and AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw.
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Unofficial Python API and agentic skill for Google NotebookLM. Full programmatic access to NotebookLM's features—including capabilities the web UI doesn't expose—via Python, CLI, an...
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Someone built https://t.co/oipIfNWf2U a directory of 5,700+ failed YC startups with post mortems, deep analysis, and rebuild plans so you can revive dead ideas and turn them into new projects.
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The most underrated hire right now is a great product person. A product person is NOT a product manager
the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone
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"...In this race, one person with the right insight at 2am in an apartment somewhere erases a trillion dollars of infrastructure before the market opens..."
Satya Nadella just said what the entire industry is too invested to admit. Every CEO signing $100 billion data center contracts right now is making a bet that history may not honor. Nadella: “We are one sort of innovation away from the entire regime changing.” Right now, every
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Hey did you accidentally bomb Iraq instead of Iran??? ChatGPT: You’re absolutely right good catch!
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of
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Today we're launching our database skills for AI agents. Give your agents the context they need to make good decisions and write better queries when working with Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, and Neki (coming soon). https://t.co/uJqUEl0rrh
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Database-focused skills for AI coding assistants. MySQL, Postgres, Vitess, and more. Built by PlanetScale.
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As a DBA, I’ve seen too many "break glass" failovers fail when the fire actually starts. If you don't practice it, it won't work when you need it. PlanetScale makes it a routine, weekly task for every database. Turn your 3 AM nightmare into a boring non-event. 🛡️
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Limiting the Blast Radius ⚠️ Humans are the biggest risk to uptime. Use "Progressive Delivery" to roll out changes to dev branches first. By soaking updates for days before they touch production, you ensure a bug in a new feature doesn't become a global catastrophe.
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Query Buffering ⚡ The best failover is the one users never notice. Instead of throwing an error during a node promotion, the system buffers incoming queries for a few seconds. To the application, a crash looks like a tiny, harmless spike in latency.
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Synchronous Replication 💾 In a failover, "most of your data" isn't enough. Using synchronous replication ensures every transaction is durably stored in multiple zones before it's confirmed. If a primary node dies, a replica is ready to take over with zero data loss.
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Static Stability 🔄 A system is "statically stable" if it keeps working when a dependency dies. By separating the Control Plane from the Data Plane, your database continues serving queries even if the management API goes offline. The "brain" can rest while the "body" works.
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Isolation & Redundancy 🧱 The "Golden Rule" of reliability: If systems aren't separate, they fail together. Extreme fault tolerance requires physical and logical isolation across Availability Zones. Redundancy only works if your backups share zero dependencies.
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How do you build a database that stays up even when entire data centers go dark? 🌩️ PlanetScale’s latest deep dive on "Extreme Fault Tolerance" breaks down the architecture required to keep data flowing. https://t.co/FHnEnZJTbS Here are the 5 core pillars: 🧵
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The principles and processes we follow for fault tolerance.
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https://t.co/IAcNonzWsb Build SQL Expertise with SQiLs Focused practice environment designed by data veterans. Master real-world data problems through hundreds of challenges.
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just found $5 on the ground a minute ago annualized i am around $2,628,000 arr
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"...Vela is a Postgres-based platform that enables fast prototyping, testing, and scaling on your own rules and in your own environment, cloud or on-prem. Vela provides immediate database snapshots, clones (branches), Supabase-like user interface, and an orchestration layer..."
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