In this episode of What’s New in Data, we’re joined by Clare Liguori – Senior Principal Engineer at AWS – to dig into the evolving role of retrieval in modern AI systems. Clare unpacks why retrieval shouldn’t just be thought of as a technique to get documents — it’s a strategic tool that can unlock smarter, more adaptive agents. We also explore how AWS is thinking about orchestration, what actually counts as “reasoning,” and why the real power lies in combining structured memory with real-tim...
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In this episode of What’s New in Data, we’re joined by Clare Liguori – Senior Principal Engineer at AWS – to dig into the evolving role of retrieval in modern AI systems. Clare unpacks why retrieval shouldn’t just be thought of as a technique to get documents — it’s a strategic tool that can unlock smarter, more adaptive agents. We also explore how AWS is thinking about orchestration, what actually counts as “reasoning,” and why the real power lies in combining structured memory with real-tim...
Scaling Databases in the AI Era: Insights from Andy Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)
What's New In Data
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7 months ago
Scaling Databases in the AI Era: Insights from Andy Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)
Join us for a deep dive into the world of databases with CMU professor Andy Pavlo. We discuss everything from OLTP vs. OLAP, the challenges of distributed databases, and why cloud-native databases require a fundamentally different approach than legacy systems. We discuss modern Vector Databases, RAG, Embeddings, Text to SQL and industry trends. You can follow Andy's work on: Blue Sky Youtube What's New In Data is a data thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay who leads data a...
What's New In Data
In this episode of What’s New in Data, we’re joined by Clare Liguori – Senior Principal Engineer at AWS – to dig into the evolving role of retrieval in modern AI systems. Clare unpacks why retrieval shouldn’t just be thought of as a technique to get documents — it’s a strategic tool that can unlock smarter, more adaptive agents. We also explore how AWS is thinking about orchestration, what actually counts as “reasoning,” and why the real power lies in combining structured memory with real-tim...
