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Field notes from the engine room
Database failure modes, detection-path engineering, and what we learn building autonomous diagnostics. Written by David Klippel, founder. No hype, evidence included.
· launch · offer · product
Why your first database is free — for life, not for fourteen days
dbexpertAI's launch offer explained: connect one database, get autonomous root-cause diagnostics on it forever, free. The business logic of an offer that only works if the product does.
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· category · monitoring-gap · detection-paths
Monitoring tells you what. Diagnosis tells you why.
The observability industry has spent a decade perfecting the rendering of symptoms. The investigation between the alert and the fix is still manual labor — and for databases, it doesn't have to be.
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· deterministic-vs-ml · industry · category
The OtterTune post-mortem: what ML-driven database tuning taught us by dying
OtterTune had CMU pedigree, real funding, and genuine ML innovation — and shut down in 2024. What its death says about probabilistic vs deterministic approaches to database operations, and why dbexpertAI took the other road.
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