Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay. Creator of DiceDB, Ex-staff Engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses.

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Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design

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There is an implicit contract at the foundation of every database architecture decision you have ever made. You probably never wrote it down. Nobody does. It just… existed.