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LangChain Cast

12/18/24

@ LangChain

The database layer has been a critical challenge in scaling our product, leading to catastrophic issues that required immediate attention from our team.

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How We Built It: Character.AI - Fireside Chat with Harrison Chase & James Groeneveld

@ LangChain

How We Built It: Character.AI - Fireside Chat with Harrison Chase & James Groeneveld

12/18/24

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LangChain Cast

12/18/24

@ LangChain

We discovered database latency issues and open connections that were different from what we had seen before, indicating a significant problem.

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Garry Tan

09/20/18

@ Y Combinator

Using a bug database is crucial for managing product development effectively, especially as your team grows.

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LangChain Cast

12/18/24

@ LangChain

We faced unique challenges in scaling our platform, particularly with GPU local attention caching, which led to unexpected negative results during testing.

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a16z Cast

04/28/25

@ a16z

We have a software crisis with legacy systems that are faltering, leading to massive outages that are consequential to the entire industry.

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Werner Vogels

11/12/18

@ Y Combinator

The effectiveness of engineers at Amazon dropped as deployments slowed, primarily because database management was centralized and controlled by a conservative group of DBAs.

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LangChain Cast

03/27/25

@ LangChain

Performance issues in graph-based systems often arise when scaling to enterprise levels, affecting both accuracy and system reliability.

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LangChain Cast

12/18/24

@ LangChain

By 11:00 a.m., we hypothesized that a bug in PostgreSQL, triggered by our query volume, was causing the issues we were experiencing.

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Hosain Rahman

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

When we launched a new product in 2011, we received a billion media impressions, but we also faced issues with product failures at scale.

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Andrew Ng

08/30/23

@ Stanford Online

While the infrastructure and developer tooling layers are receiving media attention, the success of these layers depends on the success of the application layer.