Are your agents on ACID? ft. Mike Stonebraker, creator of Postgres, and DBOS CEO Qian Li

Description

Modern software is composed of long-running, multi-step workflows spanning AI agents, microservices, databases, APIs, and humans. As applications become more distributed and autonomous, workflow orchestration and durability are becoming dominant architectural concerns. Tune in as Postgres creator and Turing Award-winning MIT researcher, Dr. Mike Stonebraker explain this architectural shift and what it means for software engineering teams. Attendees will learn how to build infrastructure for AI that maximizes the quality, reliability, and observability of agentic workflow activity. Mike will explain: - Applications are dead; long live workflows - AI agents on ACID - ensuring non-deterministic workflows execute reliably and safely - Workflow orchestration and durability is a DBMS workload Qian Li and David Joy will then discuss: - Workflow orchestration architecture alternatives: database-centric vs external orchestration - Implementing a failure-proof workflow platform with DBOS and CockroachDB, replacing a piecewise, Frankenstein stack with one ACID, Postgres-compatible, horizontally scaling system