Notes from the speed of light
Engineering deep dives, product launches, and the story of building hyper-efficient data streaming for the AI era.
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.
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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.