What Happens to the DBA when AI Agents take over? A conversation with Satya Krishnaswamy, Director, IBM Db2 Genius Hub
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Let's go. You're listening to Making Data Simple, where we make the world of data effortless, relevant, and yes, even. Hey podcast listeners, welcome back. I thank you as always. I have Satya Christmaswamy with me to today. He is the director of hybrid data management development here at IBM. So a lot of times I do um A lot of startups, external folks from IBM. I'm certainly at IBM, but every so often I I gotta bring, you know, people from IBM that I think are are game changers. Satya is is one of those. I've known Satya for quite a while. He and I work together in Kansas City. Now I work out of New York. He works in California. We went the complete opposite coasts. That's all right. You stayed in development.
I'm in sales. I'm one of those sales guys you betcha about now. But that's that's okay. That's that's part of the thing. He was asking me if I'm gonna come back to uh development. Maybe someday. I used to have DB2 development that we were gonna talk about today. But welcome, man. I'm glad to see you. Haven't seen you in a while.
Thanks, uh great to be here. You know, I I do miss the Kansas City for sure. You know, we came a long way. You in New York now and I'm in Kans uh California. It's great to be back.
When did you uh move to California? What year was that? Twenty nineteen. Why not? So the the Chiefs just started getting good. Is it because you left?
Who is Satya Krishnaswamy and what is his role at IBM?
I'm not sure. Uh I know this is coming. I know this is coming. Well, that's good. So then but you've been down there to twenty nineteen.
You've been down there a while there, man. It's been it's been quite quite a journey. Uh, you know, definitely I've I've learned quite a bit being in the Bay Area, that's for sure. And yeah, to your point, yeah, twenty nineteen is when the Chiefs started doing great things and I know we missed the the playoffs this year, which you know, I'm I'm sure. That's that's
not good. That's abnormal, man. Something's wrong. You know what? See I grew up in Kansas City my whole life. And I don't apologize for Kansas City winning. Some people are getting sick of them, right? I win my whole life. I never thought we were gonna make it to a Super Bowl ever. Bring it on. I'll take five more. That's fine by me.
I I think we're gonna get five more for sure. You know, because s we went to seven championships. We went to five Super Bowl and won three. Fantastic. Yeah, we need to do more though.
Winning is a disease. It's a good one. We need to keep doing it. Since we're already on Topic here. Why don't you introduce yourself? Give us a little bit of a of your background. And how you ended up where you are today leading D
B two. So thanks all. You know, again, uh great to be here. I lead engineering for D B two and it is a Q replication and whatnot. So I'm I'm I'm I own the core database engine teams and I'm also deeply involved in the client adoption, making sure what we build actually lands and gets used in production. So And I've been with IBM for the last seventeen years. I moved out of Kansas City in twenty nineteen to Bay Area. Great to be here. Great city. And and thanks again for having me.
No problem, man. Look, I know you're one of the smartest people I know. We've known each other for a long time. I don't think I think you're very, very subtle in introducing yourself, but that's all good. Look. We have released D B two AI edition, which got me thinking about I'm a database guy at my core. It's where I started my career. I have all the technologies right now, but database is just close to my heart because that's where I started and I was acquired when I went to IBM. And
What is the Db2 Genius Hub and how does it enable autonomous database management?
Look, D B2, for those of you who don't know, it's it's uh IBM's database, mainframe database, I think, was born in uh 1983, if you can believe that. That outdates me by a long way. D B2 for distributed was I think nineteen ninety-three, though there were some pre-cursors prior to that. We just made a claim, a massive uh play, a claim, on a autonomous uh database or d DB two AI. I think that came out in March twenty twenty six. I'll let you come you know, correct anything that I say that that's that's off.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:20
2
Who is Satya Krishnaswamy and what is his role at IBM?
1:20–3:13
3
What is the Db2 Genius Hub and how does it enable autonomous database management?
3:13–4:36
4
How does Satya describe the current state of the database industry?
4:36–5:20
5
What impact will AI agents have on the future of DBAs?
5:20–10:42
6
What are the AI autonomy levels defined for Db2 and why do they matter?
10:42–13:40
7
When should a database be allowed to operate autonomously versus requiring human oversight?
13:40–27:42
8
How does the ‘human‑in‑the‑loop’ model work in Db2’s autonomous framework?
27:42–42:16
Speakers
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