The MURE LOG #12: next battles
The data systems log, curated by humans
Hey, welcome back!
Data is critical in the agentic era, and everyone's debating the new foundations: what "context" means, how to build company brains, loops and harness, whose benchmarks to trust, and how data systems should evolve with RTM, GPU acceleration, LTAP, graphs, ontologies, and more. This issue highlights some great reads.
Our feed
01 / How agents are transforming work - OpenAI
Measuring Codex’s economic potential at the frontier.
02 / The company brain - sharing context at scale - Andrew Wong
Company brain at Box.
03 / Every AI company needs a context layer. Nobody agrees what that is. - Elisenda Bou
Agent’s Context + Institutional Knowledge + Systems of Record.
04 / Benchmarks and Obscurantism: A “red” line that should not be crossed - Melvyn Peignon
ClickHouse response to Databricks Reyden benchmarks.
05 / Spark RTM mode — Low latency streaming pipelines - Angel Conde
Spark Real-time Mode (RTM) in action with latency numbers.
06 / From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up - Reynold Xin
Unify the two worlds at the storage layer? Transactional and analytical.
07 / Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion! - Sem Sinchenko
Tested two tasks: PageRank and WCC.
08 / Designing GPU-Accelerated Query Engines with NVIDIA GQE - NVIDIA
Great read on GQE.
What's new
Anthropic - introduced Claude Science
Apache Flink - introduced, flink-s3-fs-native
AWS - launched new $1 billion FDE org
ClickHouse - announced Silk, a stackful-fiber library and scheduler
Microsoft - launched Microsoft Frontier Company (AI deployment company, FDEs) with $2.5 billion commitment
OpenAI - introduced GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research
Cisco, Databricks, GitHub, GoDaddy, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake - launched Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification
Tools & demos
Bruin - bruin, build data pipelines with SQL and Python
clflushopt - tpchgen-rs, data generation in pure Rust
GitHub - Agent Finder, find MCPs and skills, implements ARD spec
Hugging face - hf-discover, ARD compliant client and server
Maxim Salnikov - ard-catalog-explorer, ARD explorer and validation
Mimoune Djouallah - duckrun, Python lib incl DuckDB + delta-rs + Rust + dbt
rtk-ai - rtk, CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption
Sam Debruyn - fabric-dw, CLI and MCP server for Fabric Data Warehouse
Santander AI - released various OSS projects on GitHub
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