Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Our CEO recently wrote reaffirming an architectural decision ThoughtSpot made when LLMs first emerged: we do not use LLMs to directly generate SQL. My team has spent the better part of a year building AgentQL: a capability that doubles down on our decision. So let me explain what we actually built, why it doesn't just honor that architectural decision but depends on it, and the engineering choices underneath.

Automated data integration enables AI and analytics based on mission-critical operational data stored in IBM Z.

Pre-built Oracle test cases have become an increasingly popular resource as organizations look for faster ways to scale test automation. The appeal is understandable: reusable assets and templates can help teams accelerate onboarding and reduce the effort required to begin automation initiatives. Tricentis offers an Oracle test case library as a reference framework rather than an instant, maintenance-free automation solution.

Your analytics team built a report. It worked fine in development, but when it went into production, users began to complain about loading time. Your team has checked the database and looked at the dashboard configuration, but nobody can find the problem. There’s a good chance the cause is a cross join, and there’s an even better chance it’s executing in the wrong place.

With the Simba Technologies SimbaEngine SDK, you can build your own custom OBDC, OLEDB, JDBC, or ADO.NET driver to connect your data source to any application, but did you know that you can create a driver that runs on a server with the switch of a configuration setting? You can convert a SimbaEngine SDK ODBC driver into a server by switching build configurations in Visual Studio within Windows or adding BUILDSERVER=exe to your makefile in Linux, then configuring a registry or INI file.

What the PocketOS incident reveals about AI agents, unscopped API tokens, and why enterprise data needs a gateway in front of it. DreamFactory is a secure, self-hosted enterprise data access platform that provides governed API access to any data source, connecting enterprise applications and on-prem LLMs with role-based access and identity passthrough.

If you’re building a SaaS platform or data product, it’s important to consider what BI tools your customers are already using. They want to connect Tableau, Power BI, Logi Symphony, or their own analytics stack directly to your data. They want SQL access, and to query your platform the way they query everything else. But expectations don’t quite meet reality once as tickets start flooding in.

Most guidance on database replication focuses on what happens inside the pipeline: which replication strategy to use, how to handle consistency, how to monitor lag, and how to manage failover. That’s all worth understanding. But this isn’t where many replication problems start. They begin when a team realizes that one of their most important data sources can’t participate in the replication pipeline at all.