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Ayende @ Rahien

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OREN EINI aka Ayende Rahien CEO of RAVENDB LTD, which develops RAVENDB, a NoSQL Open Source Document Database.

DatabasesPerformance / optimizationAI / MLC# / .NET

Posts
27 from 2 May 2025 to 27 Oct 2026
Posting
weekly (24 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2026 23

  1. The cost of immutability
  2. AI scope creep & productivity
  3. Doing it again, twenty years later: introducing Quill
  4. Database research, frontier AI, and idiot savants, oh my!
  5. Contextual embedding in RavenDB (or how to save 220,000,000 USD)
  6. The cost of a free feature
  7. Multi-Agents in RavenDB
  8. The best code is the one you shift+delete
  9. "Optimizing" concurrent regexes
  10. Non obvious optimization with divide and conquer
  11. Learning to code, 1990s vs 2026
  12. The GPU Is the New Bangalore
  13. Putting Claude up against our test suite
  14. 15+ years of working with coding agents
  15. Expertise in the age of AI, or: Matt's Claude'll handle this
  16. Using AI agents in long-lived software projects
  17. Agents, Code Reviews, and the Bottleneck Shift, Oh My!
  18. The 'Million AI Monkeys' Hypothesis & Real-World Projects
  19. AI & the movie Eagle Eye
  20. The hole in my falloaction
  21. A tale of one-off, coding agents and the shortest path to victory
  22. Maintainability in the age of coding agents
  23. API Design

2025 4

  1. Recording
  2. Webinar
  3. Production postmorterm
  4. RavenDB News