dbexpertAI blogField notes from the engine room: database failure modes, detection-path engineering, and honest takes on AI for database operations.https://dbexpert.aiWhy your first database is free — for life, not for fourteen dayshttps://dbexpert.ai/blog/first-database-free-for-lifehttps://dbexpert.ai/blog/first-database-free-for-lifedbexpertAI'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.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMonitoring tells you what. Diagnosis tells you why.https://dbexpert.ai/blog/monitoring-tells-you-whathttps://dbexpert.ai/blog/monitoring-tells-you-whatThe 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.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe OtterTune post-mortem: what ML-driven database tuning taught us by dyinghttps://dbexpert.ai/blog/ottertune-post-mortemhttps://dbexpert.ai/blog/ottertune-post-mortemOtterTune 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.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT