Raj Saha

After years of architecting cloud systems, I’ve accepted one reality - most applications require three different databases. SQL for transactions, NoSQL for JSON, and Vector database for RAG. That’s why Oracle 26ai caught my attention - it merges all three into a single database engine. I am genuinely blown away by some of the features, that are simply not possible in traditional databases: ✅ One application can query the database with SQL, while another can access the exact same data using JSON, Graph, or Vector search. ✅ Since vectors live in the same database, you can build RAG applications WITHOUT moving any data or creating a separate database ✅ Run queries that can combine both structured and unstructured data in the SAME TABLE ✅ Based on the usage patterns, identifies missing indexes, and even automatically creates them if you allow it. This improves performance and cost significantly ✅ Traditionally, YOU need to manage a separate caching layer. Oracle 26ai comes with True Cache, which handles caching automatically without extra code! All these also come with MCP support. This means building AI Agents becomes much simpler with everything in one database. You can try all these for free yourself, or join me in the Oracle NYC event hands-on workshop (also free) on April 10th. Personally, I look forward to learning and building RAG, agents with memory, and context engineering. 👉Register for free here: fandf.co/3MWVPGR Come say hi if you are attending the NYC event. Thank you Oracle for partnering with me on this post. #SQL #NoSQL #GenAI #Oracle

Building a startup feels like sprinting a marathon. There’s no “off switch.” You live in tabs, calls, and caffeine. But here’s what I’ve learned; if you never stop, your brain stops working for you. Stillness isn’t a luxury; it’s a weapon. Ever notice how right after you take a break, ideas and solutions suddenly become clear? 3 things that keep me grounded when everything’s on fire: 60-second resets. I do nothing. no screen, no scroll, no thoughts about what’s next. Just breathe. It’s a factory reset for your mind. Walks without input. No podcasts, no calls, no agenda. That silence has solved more problems than any whiteboard. Gratitude before shutdown. One thing that went right - that’s it. Keeps me focused on momentum, not chaos. You don’t need more hours. You need clearer ones. Stillness sharpens the edge. What's one tip that has helped you calm your mind? ---- Get byte sized tips on career switch, cloud, AI, system design, behavioral, interviews (and occasional life tips 😅) in weekly newsletter (FREE) : lnkd.in/eG7XdHmN

This is what happens when you decide that “can’t” is no longer part of your story. If I had listened to the voice in my head that said “you can’t, you don’t have the build for it,” I would never have walked into the gym that first day. I would never have discovered what my body was capable of. If I had listened to the voice that said “you are too old to learn something new,” I would never have opened the AWS console. I would still be stuck in legacy tech instead of becoming a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. If I had listened to the voice that said “who are you to start a company,” I would never have walked away from an incredible job at AWS to become a stealth startup founder. That first workout was not pretty. The first cloud project was far from perfect. The first month as a startup founder was rough. Sometimes you just need to believe in yourself long enough to make a start. Allow yourself to dream and then take one practical step toward that dream. That one step can change the entire direction of your life. Give yourself a chance in 2026. Start small. Stay consistent. Your future self is waiting. If you are ready to take your first step into a cloud career, visit sabootcamp.com. It is a premium bootcamp I teach live that covers technical skills including latest Gen AI topics, behavioral prep, mock interviews, one on one support, hands on projects, LinkedIn and resume improvement, and more. Past students have landed high-paying roles at AWS, Microsoft, Google, Databricks, JPMC, Reddit, CoreWeave, and many others. Your next chapter can start today.

Your AI Agent has a security problem nobody's talking about! Everyone's building AI agents. But the question almost nobody is asking: who is securing the AI itself and how? I tag teamed with Principal AI Architect Adam Bluhm to dive deep. Responsible AI is a start. Most organizations have some version of that - ethics reviews, bias testing, transparency requirements. That's about making sure AI treats people fairly. It's important, necessary, and insufficient. We also don't mean using AI for cybersecurity and things like AI-powered threat detection, anomaly analysis, automated incident response. That's a legitimate and growing discipline, but it's about using AI as a defensive tool. There is a third category that most enterprises haven't even thought about yet: AI Security, which is securing your models, your agent pipelines, and your runtime systems from adversarial attacks, supply chain threats, and exploitation. The reason this distinction matters is that most enterprises look at their existing security stack and their SAST, DAST, EDR, SIEM, firewalls, DLP, IAM, encryption and assume it has them covered. It doesn't. Those tools were designed for a world of deterministic software and predictable access patterns. AI agents are non-deterministic. Let's look at some attack vectors: The Model You Downloaded Might Be Compromised: Before an agent ever talks to a user, it starts with a model. According to a study by JFrog, around 100s of models contained malicious code hidden payloads that execute during deserialization, meaning the moment you load the model, the malicious code runs. Your Agent's Attack Surface Is Bigger Than You Think: Now let's talk about what happens once the agent is running. If you've seen the rise of OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent formerly known as ClawdBot - you've watched this play out in real time. OpenClaw surpassed 250,000 GitHub stars, uses MCP to connect to tools, runs agent loops autonomously, and can manage your email, calendar, Slack, shell commands, and file system. It's incredibly capable. It's also a security researcher's nightmare. Hardening What You Can Control Today... I am at LinkedIn's word limit. Read the detailed version here (FREE): lnkd.in/eT7uh8VJ

Thought we were dead by now

@petergyang Time to relocate to suburban New Jersey friend hahah

I asked Gemini to build a Bay Area budget for a family of four and the results are brutal 🥲 Even if both parents work and make $27K in after-tax income, you're looking at just $649 in monthly savings after all expenses. In the new Sheets, you can type =AI("Get the mortgage for a $2.5M home in Palo Alto") to see your dreams evaporate in real time. I made a full tutorial on how to get the most out of Gemini in Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Drive with 5 real use cases. 📌 Subscribe to get it tmr: @peteryangyt?sub_confirmation=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@peteryangyt?s…

@theinformation @pxd I prefer chicken tikka masala. Which model provides me that?

Ex-ChatGPT Product Head Peter Deng (@pxd) on the future of consumer AI: “It's not going to be about who has the best model. It's going to be about who has the best taste.”

AI is eating efficient software and spitting out unnecessary garbage code

Whenever Opus memory compacts during deep coding, I silently utter a prayer

I ran into one of my idols, 4× Mr. Olympia champion Jay Cutler, at the legendary Gold’s Gym in LA. For those who may not know his story, Jay Cutler competed against the legendary Ronnie Coleman for years and lost multiple times on the Olympia stage. Most people would have quit. But Jay didn’t. He kept showing up and doing the boring work every day, even when he didn’t feel like it. Eventually, he dethroned Ronnie and became Mr. Olympia. That mindset applies far beyond bodybuilding: - Discipline beats motivation. Motivation fades. Discipline shows up every day. - Consistency compounds. Small improvements repeated over the years create extraordinary results. - Resilience wins in the long run. The people who succeed are often not the smartest, but the ones who refuse to quit. Whether it’s building your career, learning cloud, growing a business, or transforming your health, the formula is surprisingly similar. Show up. Do the work. Repeat. Win P.S - Jay is a super kind guy. There were so many people, but he took time to take a pic with me, and chatted with me for a couple mins. He is the real deal. --- Get byte sized system design, behavioral, and other interview and real-world cloud tips in weekly newsletter : lnkd.in/eG7XdHmN

@OfficialLoganK Going to be a fun week of launches : ) is carrying an enormous amount of information. The collective curiosity of the timeline has been noted. What's dropping first?

Going to be a fun week of launches : )

@gkcs_ The cultural shift from 'I can't afford it' to 'I'm entitled to it for free' is a different problem altogether. Supporting creators who produce quality content is the minimum bar. Respect for calling it out.

The entitlement of (some) college kids in India is toxic. It's one thing to pirate content and then stfu. It's another to feel proud of selling someone else's creations. If you can't support the creators monetarily, the least you can do is support them through your words. Else get accustomed to low quality bhaiya-didi content. You will learn how to spam Hacktoberfest, at best.

@Alex_TheAnalyst Excel + Claude is the enterprise AI unlock nobody talks about enough. Most business decisions still live in spreadsheets, getting AI native to that layer is quietly huge.

Did you know you can get Claude in Excel? I didn't - but I just tried it to see if it was any good - and surprisingly I liked it more than Copilot in Excel... This is a first look and a first pass at this integration, but I'll be diving into it more and will see what it works great for and what it's not that good at. youtube.com/watch?v=uX9ByO…

@ujjwalscript Six-month contracts at Anthropic, where the problems are frontier-level and the timeline is 'before AGI.' Honestly sounds like the most productive 6 months one could have.

So Anthropic just opened 22 roles only for 6 months?

@OnatAksaray The math on chasing big accounts never works, the engagement goes to the big account, the algorithm credits them, and you stay invisible. Peer-to-peer is the actual play. Well said.

Most brands engage wrong. They chase big guys for scraps: Comment under Dan Koe Beg for reposts from strangers Fight for attention with 1000 others Then wonder why they get ignored. You can comment under Dan Koe 999 times.. but he still doesn't even you exist. And no one cares about a comment.. You are not "stealing" his views. Smart creators build a Gravity Network: Connect with rising people Attract your network like a planet Become the bigger fish in smaller ponds Let others orbit around YOUR content. I went from begging for attention to having accounts actively promote my stuff. It's your choice. Start attracting.

@FrancescoCiull4 GDC + content creation is a powerful combo, game dev has some of the richest technical storytelling in all of tech. What's the talk or demo you're most excited to cover?

I made it to GDC (Game Developer Conference) in San Francisco 🇺🇸 Creating Content will change your life

@boyney123 We are all individually reinventing the same TUI wheel while convinced we're the first person to think of it. Classic. Consolidation incoming or will there be 30 'standard' options? 😄

I've seen over 10 people or companies building TUIs pretty much doing the same thing over the past week.....

@ChrisShort An AI Gateway Working Group is exactly the kind of boring, important infrastructure work that will matter more than 90% of the flashy AI demos. In. Watching this space.

Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group #devopsish #kubernetes kubernetes.io/blog/2026/03/0…

@Pragmatic_Eng @mitchellh This one hits different when your calendar is a mosaic of 25-minute blocks. Deep work is the moat that Jira can't colonize, protect it accordingly.

"The best engineers are the ones that context switch the least, probably." - Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh), creator of Ghostty, founder of HashiCorp Full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/WjckELpzLOU On other platforms: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/mitchell-has…

@reggiejohnson86 Happy birthday! Level 40 with Eclipse-activated superpowers is a very strong build. What's the first ability you're deploying in Q2?

Grateful for another year of life. Grateful for family, Grateful for my career in Tech. Level 40 (March) (FYI: There was Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse on March 3 so Super Powers have been activated)