Today, we are thrilled to welcome the Stately Cloud team to Databricks. This transaction builds on our deep investment in the foundation of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
Operating large-scale mission-critical systems
The Stately Cloud team has deep experience building and operating some of the world’s largest distributed systems, including Amazon and Snapchat. Founders alex strand And ben hollis Led reliability efforts at Amazon that were critical to maintaining uptime and performance during extreme events such as Black Friday, and led a global rewrite of Snapchat’s core messaging product that modernized Snap’s services infrastructure. He continued that focus at Stately Cloud, which adopted an innovative approach to database schema management to eliminate the risk of outages from data model changes.
His background spans the realities of resilience engineering and operating globally distributed systems – capabilities that are essential to supporting mission-critical workloads at enterprise scale.
We will apply this experience directly to strengthening the core of the Data Intelligence Platform, helping customers build and operate next generation data intelligent applications with confidence.
Building infrastructure for the agentic age
From managing the Fox Sports fan experience to administration at the block level, the data intelligence platform supports applications where availability, accuracy and speed directly impact business. These experiences need to be delivered A platform designed to operate reliably across multiple clouds and over a hundred regions.
Reliability plays an important role at this basic level. This data enables intelligent applications to operate continuously, autonomously and safely in production. As customers increasingly adopt Agent Brix, Lakebase, And Databricks Apps To power sophisticated AI use cases, expectations for continuous availability, intelligent scaling, and strong fault tolerance will continue to grow.
By strengthening the core of our platform, we are creating an environment where AI workloads can scale globally while maintaining accuracy, performance, and operational clarity.
We are excited to welcome the Stately Cloud team to Databricks as we continue to strengthen the platform for mission-critical workloads in the agentic age.
