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[Rootconf @rootconf]

A critical HBase op kept failing after exactly 60 seconds.
Every time.
Varun Mishra (@flipkart_tech) traced it to a deadlock that only shows up at scale - and got it from 60,000ms to <500ms.

Rootconf on Databases · June 13 · Bangalore 🔗 https://t.co/JyBuzRsuLW

[Antithesis @AntithesisHQ]

@rootconf https://t.co/2MZogHHIWM
And if you can't make it, here's our deep dive on how we tested Pangolin: https://t.co/R90pBsE0az

[Antithesis @AntithesisHQ]

And if you missed Will's talk in Bengaluru, we're coming by again next week.

Shomik Ghose will be talking about how we wrote our own custom production DB in 14 months at the @Rootconf Special Edition on Databases on Sat June 13, tickets below! It's been running for a year and still hasn't fallen down!

[Antithesis @AntithesisHQ]

Hullo Bengaluru!

We had such a fabulous time at the @BengaluruSys meetup last month, when Will got to chat with @AmodM from @pre6ai about correctness in AI-accelerated systems engineering.

Thanks for hosting, and for the most incredible staging we've ever seen at a meetup!

[Zainab Bawa @zainabbawa]

@ctushr pinged seeing a @fifthel & @aigrantsindia branded lanyard in a shop in Thippasandra.

Attention is all you need.

@yashgandhi_ @ramkrsna @pragatichopade @pramodbiligiri @vedang

[Doctor rerum naturalium @BhogalePrasanna]

Got hardcover copies of my book "An Unfriendly Introduction to Causal Inference"!

Giving away 10 copies to anyone in the causal community who'd find it useful.

Fill this form to get your copy https://t.co/G4AcK8GlnW
@CAUSALab @JPAL @rlmcelreath @yudapearl

#CausalInference

[Rootconf @rootconf]

@nutanix 6/
Rootconf Topical Edition on Databases | Research ideas | Production scars.

📍 Bengaluru | 📅 29–30 May

https://t.co/7hWe8mAUpP

[Rootconf @rootconf]

@nutanix 4/
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🧪 Rolling your own database (safely!): property-based testing at scale by Shomik Ghose from Antithesis.
Shomik shares how a 3-engineer team built Pangolin, a production OLAP database, in just 14 months.

[Rootconf @rootconf]

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🛰️ Beyond polling: building an event-driven state engine for multi-cluster database control planes -
from @nutanix engineers Marko Nikolic & Vaibhaw Pandey.

How do you keep database control planes synchronized across dozens of Kubernetes clusters without melting API servers?

[Rootconf @rootconf]

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While all you database geeks were away on the weekend, Rootconf reviewers were busy partitioning & shredding rows & columns of the submissions spreadsheet to pick the next talks for Rootconf Topical Edition on Databases. 🗄️
Here’s what passed the consistency checks 👇

[Bengaluru Systems (fka Bengaluru Systems Meetup) @BengaluruSys]

We're featuring a panel discussion on ‘Correctness in AI-Accelerated Systems Engineering’ with Will Wilson, the CEO of @AntithesisHQ and @amodm, co-founder of @pre6ai, moderated by @AnirudhRowjee from @couchbase on the 22nd!

Register to attend!
https://t.co/qcDIiUroCH

[Rootconf @rootconf]

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Another discussion point was abt patch everything, which is increasingly impractical.

Major version upgrades, runtime regressions, infra compatibility, & exploit reachability all complicate remediation.

The group discussed why exploitability-based triage is gaining traction.

[Rootconf @rootconf]

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On tooling, the discussion covered:
🛠️ SCA
🛠️ SAST
🛠️ DAST
🛠️ secret detection
🛠️ automated threat modeling

They also highlighted how automated threat modelling is emerging as an area where AI is already proving useful.

[Rootconf @rootconf]

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AI-generated code is also changing the review burden.
If code attribution becomes fuzzy:
→ who owns intent?
→ who reviews quality?
→ who accepts the risk?

Some teams are already accepting higher levels of uncertainty as a practical trade-off.

[Rootconf @rootconf]

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A recurring theme during the discussion was that mo amount of tooling fixes cultural problems.

Therefore, security teams increasingly need to:
→ work within developer workflows
→ adopt the same tools
→ communicate in terms of business impact, not just severity scores

[Rootconf @rootconf]

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8 security practitioners discussed what happens to AppSec when:
→ PR volumes explode
→ AI-generated code becomes normal
→ attribution gets fuzzy
→ manual review models stop scaling
→ existing security workflows start breaking down

[The Fifth Elephant @fifthel]

@SahajSoftware @NutanixIndia 5/
⚙️ Multi-agent patterns (delegation, routing, role specialization)

⚙️ MCP (Model Context Protocol) (connecting agents to structured data/services cleanly)

[The Fifth Elephant @fifthel]

@SahajSoftware @NutanixIndia 3/
Previously held in Blr with AI engineers, architects, data scientists, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, & backend developers, the discussions covered:
→ when to - and when not to - use agents
→ orchestration patterns
→ LangGraph internals
→ MCP integrations

[The Fifth Elephant @fifthel]

On Saturday, 16 May, Swetha A and Mahita D will conduct a full-day, hands-on workshop in Pune:

🧠 Crafting Multi-Agent Systems That Think and Act

📍 Nutanix, Baner, Pune
🕙 10 AM – 5:30 PM
🎟️ Register: https://t.co/CbBfLAzYhs
@SahajSoftware @NutanixIndia

[Rootconf @rootconf]

With a lotta empty chairs.
From today's Platform Engineering meet-up - on 9 May.
Icymi, the live stream is open - https://t.co/ebUoUCubp7