Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era

Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. Applications increasingly expect structured and unstructured data to come together.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of think, it's, things, including: However, AI is now bending that contract in a new direction.

1. 01Agents are also beginning to write their own queries and even propose their own schemas, which raises new questions about how data should be structured, governed, and trusted
2. 02Matt Merrill is a software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling software teams across enterprise and product-focused organizations
3. 03And so whether it's Gemini or Gmail or YouTube, all of these run that same database infrastructure on the same set of systems and spanner and big table