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No more surprises: Newest RavenDB Update

No more surprises: Newest RavenDB Update

June 29, 2026

Highlights: RavenDB Cloud’s new Serverless tier auto-scales CPU up and down within a range you define. Range-based pricing helps keep cloud database costs more predictable. Azure Premium SSD v2 support lets you scale IOPS and throughput without buying larger disks. Friday. 4:55 PM. And you’re about to close your laptop (your work…

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Putting Claude up against our test suite

Putting Claude up against our test suite

April 29, 2026

I’m convinced that in hell, there is a special place dedicated to making engineers fix flaky tests. Not broken tests. Not tests covering a real bug. Flaky tests. Tests that pass 999 times out of 1000 and fail on the 1,000th run for no reason you can explain with a clean conscience.If you've ever shipped a reasonably complex distributed system, you…

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15+ years of working with coding agents

15+ years of working with coding agents

April 27, 2026

No, the title is not a mistake, nor did I use my time travel pass to give you insights from the future. Bear with me for a moment while I explain my thinking.From individual contributor to oversight roleI started writing RavenDB in a spare bedroom, which turned into an office. The project grew from a sparkle in my head that wouldn’t let me sleep…

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Expertise in the age of AI, or: Matt's Claude'll handle this

Expertise in the age of AI, or: Matt's Claude'll handle this

April 23, 2026

One of our team leads has been working on a major feature using Claude Code. He's been at it for a few days and is nearly done. To put that in context: this feature would normally represent about a month of a senior developer's time.He did the backend work himself — working with Claude to build it out, applying his knowledge of how the system…

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Using AI agents in long-lived software projects

Using AI agents in long-lived software projects

April 21, 2026

You read the story a hundred times: “I told Codex (or Claude, or Antigravity, etc.) to build me a full app to run my business, and 30 minutes later, it’s done”. These types of stories usually celebrate the new ecosystem and the ability to build complex systems without having to dive into the details.The benchmarks celebrate "one-shotting" entire…

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Agents, Code Reviews, and the Bottleneck Shift, Oh My!

Agents, Code Reviews, and the Bottleneck Shift, Oh My!

April 17, 2026

Like everything else, we have been using AI in various forms for a while now, from asking ChatGPT to write a function to asking it to explain an error, then graduating to running it on our code in the IDE, and finally to full-blown independent coding assistants. Recently, we shifted into a much higher gear, rolling it out across most of the teams…

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Applying RavenDB cloud wisdom to Kubernetes Operator

Applying RavenDB cloud wisdom to Kubernetes Operator

March 23, 2026

Writing a Kubernetes Operator is not an easy feat. After all, the ultimate goal is to have a fully automatic process, that manages and deals with all the complexities of the very thing you want to deploy. Clearly, the Operator Framework helps you a lot. It provides tools, best practices and some mapping of capabilities that an operator should…

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Production post-mortem: How a Windows Kernel Lock Stalled the .NET GC

Production post-mortem: How a Windows Kernel Lock Stalled the .NET GC

March 9, 2026

In the world of high-performance databases, “slow” is bad, but “stopped” is unacceptable. This was exactly what happened in one of our support cases. It started as a mysterious performance hiccup and ended with a deep dive into the Windows Kernel architecture, requiring the combined expertise of our team, the customer, and Microsoft Support. This…

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Using RavenDB Queue ETL as Event Outbox

Using RavenDB Queue ETL as Event Outbox

February 24, 2026

Highlights Use RavenDB Queue ETL to implement the transactional outbox pattern without complex application code. Ensure invoice data and events stay consistent across databases and message queues. Publish events automatically to Kafka or RabbitMQ using RavenDB’s durable ETL pipelines. Distributed systems and their…

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Redesigning the RavenDB Setup Wizard: A UX Journey to Simplicity

Redesigning the RavenDB Setup Wizard: A UX Journey to Simplicity

February 3, 2026

Highlights The RavenDB Setup Wizard was redesigned to simplify database onboarding and reduce configuration friction. A guided step-by-step UX with progress tracking and real-time validation helps users complete setup faster. Built with the RavenDB design system, the new wizard offers clearer guidance, reduces errors, and provides a…

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Introducing: RavenDB Kubernetes Operator

Introducing: RavenDB Kubernetes Operator

January 15, 2026

RavenDB has recently introduced its dedicated Kubernetes Operator, a big improvement over the Helm charts that teams have been using. This is meant to streamline database orchestration and management, essentially giving you an automated "SRE-in-a-box."You can read the full announcement here. And the actual operator is available here.The Operator…

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Why your database architecture is your first line of defense

Why your database architecture is your first line of defense

January 8, 2026

Recent reports about a vulnerability often referred to as MongoBleed have understandably drawn attention across the engineering and security communities. At a high level, the issue allows an unauthenticated remote attacker, under specific conditions, to read portions of the process memory. That memory may include sensitive data such…

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