I gave two talks at Dreamforce, a show where the stakeholder who matters most never came up
I spoke twice at Dreamforce this year. The first talk was about a category gap: agents are the new front…
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Making io_uring Actually Fast: I/O Threads, Chunking, and the Memory Story Nobody Talks About
Part 2 of 2. Part 1: We replaced mmap with io_uring in our Rust query engine. It got slower. Part…
We Replaced mmap with io_uring in Our Rust Query Engine. It Got Slower.
In the beginning, there was mmap. It was convenient: it let us lazily read huge numbers of Arrow IPC files…
Why AI Agents Waste the First Two and a Half Minutes of Every Conversation
Conviva research finds that consumer-facing agents spend an average of two minutes and 32 seconds establishing basic context before they can address a customer's actual request.
Conviva Finds Agents Burn More Than 2.5 Minutes Gathering Context
Download our report today to dig into the research and discover critical insights into how consumer-facing AI agents can make or break your relationship with customers.
Your agents don’t know how your shoppers want to buy
New data shows that two-thirds of your most valuable customers take journeys your analytics were never built to see. The implications for AI agent design — and the analytics infrastructure behind them — are significant.
Product Analytics Captures Your Events. It Doesn’t Understand Your Customers.
Events are what happened. Behavior is what it means. In the era of AI-mediated commerce, understanding the second is what matters.
Why Every Consumer-Facing AI Agent Needs a Context Graph
Context graphs are essential for consumer-facing AI agents. Learn how they work — and what it takes to build a good one
Product Analytics is Giving You Funnel Vision
Funnel vision isn't a configuration problem or a dashboard gap. It's a structural consequence of using a measurement model designed for a straight-line journey to describe a buying behavior that is almost never straight-line.
2026 State of Digital Experience Report
Download Conviva's State of Digital Experience 2026 to find out what consumers actually do rather than what funnel models assume they do.
The AI Agent Survival Guide for eCommerce Leaders
Everything eCommerce and AI teams were talking about at ShopTalk — and what to do about it.
What Is Pattern Analytics
Pattern analytics surfaces behavioral sequences your current stack misses. Learn how stateful, real-time intelligence differs from event-based analytics.