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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
29 from 2 May 2025 to 4 Nov 2026
Posting
weekly (26 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
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2026 25

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

2025 4

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