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Pythian wins Atlassian’s AI and Innovation Leaders Award

We are proud to announce that Pythian has been officially recognized at Atlassian Team ’26 as a winner of the ...

Google AI & Nvidia: The Three Operating Planes of AI & The Invisible Force Connecting Them

Why “AI Gravity” determines where Google and NVIDIA win In 2026, the AI conversation has shifted. We’ve moved past ...

Why Google AI Automation Powers Data-Centric Industries

In 2026, the cloud conversation has shifted from infrastructure to outcomes. The question is no longer “Should we move ...

The Complete Guide to Agentic AI Design Patterns

Agentic AI design patterns are the architectural blueprints that describe artificial intelligence systems to plan, ...

The Era of the AI Teammate: Key Takeaways from Google Next 2026

I just returned from Google Next 2026, and if there’s one takeaway that stood out, it’s this: we are officially moving ...

The Tokenomics of Intelligence: TPU 8i and the End of the Quota Wall

It’s 2026, and in my role as a Customer Engineer within the Google Cloud ecosystem, I’m spending a lot of my time ...

The Evolution of BigQuery Billing: Chasing the Perfect Balance

The Retail Revolution: How Wayfair is using AI to shape the future of online furniture shopping

The retail landscape is no longer just about having the best product on the shelf; it’s about having governed data that ...

Beyond the cart: How AI is transforming grocery store operations

The grocery industry has long been defined by razor-thin margins and intense manual labor. From the back-office hum of ...

From AI implementation to impact: Mastering enterprise AI in the modern workplace

The dust has finally settled on Google Cloud Next 26, and if there is one definitive takeaway, it is this: the era of ...

Google Announced Agent Platform and These Are the Decisions You Have to Make

Google’s New Vision: What the Agent Platform Actually Is Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google’s evolution of ...

Beyond the Hype: Deconstructing Google’s New Data Cloud from Next '26

The dust has barely settled on Google Cloud Next '26 keynote address, and the message from the keynote stage was clear: ...

The Definitive Definition of Production AI: Moving from Pilot to ROI

What is Production AI? Moving Beyond the Pilot “Production AI is the deployment of AI solutions into core business ...

IT Services Company Saves $1.4M in Annual Azure Spend with Synapse Optimization

Pythian Synapse optimization cuts costs, improves query performance, and enables Fabric migration readiness A global IT ...

4 Critical DAX Anti-Patterns Undermining Power BI Performance

Good DAX performance usually comes down to avoiding just a few common mistakes.

Infrastructure as Craft: Variables vs Locals

As DevOps engineers, we often talk about “infrastructure as code,” but too rarely do we talk about code as a craft. ...

Oracle Forms: Newly Created Runtime Process Has Terminated Abnormally

After applying a Critical Patch Update (CPU) or a specific bundle patch to an Oracle Forms 12c environment, you might ...

Unifying a Tier-1 Financial Institution's Data Estate on the Databricks Lakehouse

Pythian consolidated legacy warehouses, governed petabytes of regulated data, and deployed production AI A global ...

Modernizing a Global IT Services Provider's Redshift Environment for Production Analytics and AI

Pythian cut an aging Redshift estate query latency by 60 percent and saving $1.8M annually A multinational IT services ...

Modernizing a Legacy Teradata Estate for Enterprise Analytics and AI

Pythian migrated a decade-old Teradata warehouse to BigQuery without disrupting 24/7 operations This organization built ...

Modernizing a Legacy Oracle Exadata Data Warehouse for a Global Retailer

How Pythian turned aging Exadata into a cloud-native analytics and AI platform A global multi-brand retailer with ...

Modernizing a Vertica Projection-Era Analytics into a Cloud-Native, AI-Ready Platform

How Pythian helped a global IT services provider exit Vertica Enterprise Mode and deliver production analytics and AI A ...

Unifying a Global Business Services Firm’s Fragmented Azure Data Estate into a Production-Grade Fabric Platform

Pythian consolidated five legacy Microsoft services into a single governed lakehouse A global business services ...

Modernizing from Greenplum for Mission-Critical Analytics for a Global Financial Institution

From Broadcom-pressured Greenplum to AI-ready cloud analytics A Tier-1 financial institution running 200+ terabytes of ...

Modernizing a Global IT Services Provider's Db2 Estate for Cloud-Native Analytics and AI

Legacy Db2 z/OS and LUW to a cloud-native analytics and AI platform A global IT services organization across 30+ ...

Migrating Regulatory Analytics from Netezza to an AI-ready Cloud Platform

Zero-disruption migration for a Tier-1 financial institution A Fortune 500 financial institution ran regulatory ...

Modernizing Big Data Infrastructure from Hadoop for a Tier-1 Financial Institution

From unsupported Hadoop to governed Databricks Lakehouse — 55% cost reduction and production AI in under a year A ...