Notes from the speed of light
Engineering deep dives, product launches, and the story of building hyper-efficient data streaming for the AI era.
Consumer Filters: Stop Moving Data You Do Not Need
LaserData consumer filters select records beside the log, cutting network transfer and downstream work while preserving replay, offsets, and flexible consumer policies.
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Killing agents in a delivery desk demo
What happens when an agent in a Laser SDK delivery demo is killed part way through a task, how the vans' rounds are planned, and every Laser SDK feature the demo uses.
A Laser SDK plugin for coding agents
Skills that teach Claude Code, Cursor and Codex to build with Laser SDK, and an MCP server that lets them search the current LaserData docs as they work.
Agents fail. Their sessions shouldn't.
Kill an agent mid-ticket and a new process carries on where it stopped. A support desk demo on Laser SDK shows how redelivery, sessions and checkpoints make that work.
Data Streaming Infrastructure for the Agent Era
Agents turn every task into a continuous stream of context, actions, state, and telemetry. The data plane beneath them has to become faster, cheaper, and more predictable.
From Apache User to PMC Chair: My 20+ Year Open Source Journey
How years of using, contributing to, and building on open source eventually led me to Apache Iggy and LaserData.
Trust Is Built In: Launching the LaserData Trust Center
LaserData is now ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, SOC 2 Type II, and GDPR compliant, a milestone rooted in how we have built from day one.
Memory Meets Motion: Our First LaserData Hackathon
On Aug 03, 2026 in San Francisco, we are co-hosting Memory Meets Motion, a hackathon for building agentic workflows that move with memory, state, and real-time data.
Real-Time Analytics Benchmark: Apache Iggy vs Kafka into VeloDB Cloud
A VeloDB benchmark shows why broker architecture matters for query-ready streaming analytics: Iggy delivered roughly 3x broker throughput, 16x lower broker p99 latency, and a much tighter end-to-end tail.
Introducing LaserData Cloud Free Tier
The story behind LaserData, why we built it on Apache Iggy, and why we believe real-time and agentic systems need a new kind of data plane.