The emergence of cloud-based database systems has intensified the challenge of achieving optimal performance under large-scale workloads. Conventional tuning methods, which rely on human intervention and static heuristics, often struggle with the complexity and diversity of modern cloud environments. This survey offers an in-depth examination of the reinforcement learning (RL) techniques of automated optimisation of cloud database performance. By continuously observing workload behavior and system feedback, RL enables the database engines to become self-adaptive and reduces the need for continuous manual monitoring.
For more than 30 years, the IBM AS/400 (iSeries/IBM i) platform has supported mission-critical operations in retail and banking with unmatched reliability, seamless database management, and high performance. These legacy environments, however, are under tremendous strategic pressure amid the rapid pace of digital transformation, cloud-native architectures, and the demands of the API economy. In this paper, an in-depth, evidence-based approach is presented to modernize enterprise systems built on the AS/400 platform, supported by case studies of 12 retail chains and 8 banking institutions from North America and Europe.
As large language models (LLMs) continue to mature quickly, the focus of enterprise AI has shifted from simply leveraging the model to the integration, orchestration, and governance of enterprise AI. While the shift from chatbots to agentic ones that reason, plan, and make decisions on their own across a plethora of different data sources and tools, there are no universal frameworks that connect models to enterprise resources. In response to this challenge, this review discusses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the entire class of agentic AI middleware, in the context of enterprise integration and the development of middleware. We combine existing work from the areas of reasoning, tool use, retrieval augmented grounding, multi-agent coordination and AI security to extract the key concepts and research gaps of this field.
Energy-conscious bare-metal provisioning has become an important research question since virtualized data centers are now full of mixed workloads, whose performance, isolation, and energy usage vary radically across virtual machines, containers, and direct hardware allocation.
As the number of microservices increases, developer platforms are increasingly expected to support scalability by incorporating command line interfaces with standard delivery, observability and governance capabilities into the backend workflows of software development teams.
Digital content is an important sales enabler and AI-augmented CMSs play a crucial role in making content easily accessible for sales teams, relevant to sales teams’ needs and buyer contexts, personalized, compliant, measurable and revenue-generating.
As new and multiple cloud platforms emerge, each providing different features and capabilities, the data journey is becoming more complex and more important, resulting in an autonomous multi-cloud data pipeline orchestration problem such as container platforms, serverless services, streaming engines, data lakes, and disparate cloud providers host many analytical workloads.
AI coding agents using large language model (LLM) technology are revolutionizing the software development landscape, especially in the areas of planning, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
Autonomous Cloud Database Performance Optimization Using Reinforcement Learning in AWS and Snowflake
Raghu Gopa
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The emergence of cloud-based database systems has intensified the challenge of achieving optimal performance under large-scale workloads. Conventional tuning methods, which rely on human intervention and static heuristics, often struggle with the complexity and diversity of modern cloud environments. This survey offers an in-depth examination of the reinforcement learning (RL) techniques of automated optimisation of cloud database performance. By continuously observing workload behavior and system feedback, RL enables the database engines to become self-adaptive and reduces the need for continuous manual monitoring.
Modernizing AS/400-Based Enterprise Systems: A Practical Framework for Retail and Banking Transformation
Shiva Kumar Devasani
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For more than 30 years, the IBM AS/400 (iSeries/IBM i) platform has supported mission-critical operations in retail and banking with unmatched reliability, seamless database management, and high performance. These legacy environments, however, are under tremendous strategic pressure amid the rapid pace of digital transformation, cloud-native architectures, and the demands of the API economy. In this paper, an in-depth, evidence-based approach is presented to modernize enterprise systems built on the AS/400 platform, supported by case studies of 12 retail chains and 8 banking institutions from North America and Europe.
Model Context Protocols and Agentic AI Middleware: An Enterprise Architecture Framework for Scalable AI-Driven
Digital Transformation
Amil Bhadreshkumar Shah
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As large language models (LLMs) continue to mature quickly, the focus of enterprise AI has shifted from simply leveraging the model to the integration, orchestration, and governance of enterprise AI. While the shift from chatbots to agentic ones that reason, plan, and make decisions on their own across a plethora of different data sources and tools, there are no universal frameworks that connect models to enterprise resources. In response to this challenge, this review discusses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the entire class of agentic AI middleware, in the context of enterprise integration and the development of middleware. We combine existing work from the areas of reasoning, tool use, retrieval augmented grounding, multi-agent coordination and AI security to extract the key concepts and research gaps of this field.
Energy-Aware Bare-Metal Provisioning in Virtualized Data Centers
Ratan Raj Anandeshi
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Energy-conscious bare-metal provisioning has become an important research question since virtualized data centers are now full of mixed workloads, whose performance, isolation, and energy usage vary radically across virtual machines, containers, and direct hardware allocation.
Design Patterns for Scalable Developer Platforms: A Microservices and CLI-Centric Approach
Shubham Srivastava
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As the number of microservices increases, developer platforms are increasingly expected to support scalability by incorporating command line interfaces with standard delivery, observability and governance capabilities into the backend workflows of software development teams.
Designing AI-Augmented Content Management Systems for Sales Enablement: A Framework for Measuring Engagement
to-Revenue Impact
Nisha Gopinath Menon
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Digital content is an important sales enabler and AI-augmented CMSs play a crucial role in making content easily accessible for sales teams, relevant to sales teams’ needs and buyer contexts, personalized, compliant, measurable and revenue-generating.
Autonomous Multi-Cloud Data Pipeline Orchestration Using AI-Driven Observability and Self-Healing ETL Frameworks
Sreenivasa Reddy Vemareddy
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As new and multiple cloud platforms emerge, each providing different features and capabilities, the data journey is becoming more complex and more important, resulting in an autonomous multi-cloud data pipeline orchestration problem such as container platforms, serverless services, streaming engines, data lakes, and disparate cloud providers host many analytical workloads.
Enhancing Cost Efficiency of AI Coding Agents at Enterprise Scale: Challenges, Strategies, and Frameworks
Sainadh Ainala, Vinay Chowdary Duvvada
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AI coding agents using large language model (LLM) technology are revolutionizing the software development landscape, especially in the areas of planning, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.