Welcome to Building on Lakebase, a four-part series on building transactional apps and AI agents on Lakebase, a fully managed serverless PostgreSQL database built by Databricks.
Over the four episodes led by Michelle Deng and Benjamin Nwokeleme, Solutions Architects at Databricks, you'll first get to know Lakebase: what it is and why it's a great fit as a backing store for transactional apps and AI agents. Then you'll see how an example app and AI agent are built on top of it.
Episode 1 - Meet Lakebase: understand the fundamentals - https://youtu.be/2FXhngKsVlk
Episode 2 - Anatomy of an AI app: build the operational + agentic app on Lakebase, with hybrid Lakebase Search and agent memory
Episode 3 - Branch, Test, and Ship: release changes safely using branching
Episode 4 - Operate and Recover: monitoring, autoscaling and scale-to-zero, protection with snapshots and point-in-time recovery
We follow one example the whole way through: a customer-support copilot, backed by Lakebase that stores operational data, synced lakehouse insight, hybrid Lakebase Search, and agent memory.
In this episode, we open the finished Customer Support Copilot App, tour its architecture, walk the key code, and run it live. See how one Databricks App powers both a support dashboard and an AI copilot - with the agent drawing on operational data, synced lakehouse insight, hybrid Lakebase Search, and memory, all on Lakebase.
After watching, spin up your own Lakebase project and explore. There's no better way to learn than to try it yourself!
Resources:
- Lakebase: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/
- Serve lakehouse data with synced tables: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/sync-tables
- Agent state and memory: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/oltp/projects/state-management
- Agent memory and sessions: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/agents/custom-agents/stateful-agents
- Author and deploy an agent on Databricks Apps: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/agents/custom-agents/author-agent
- Learn more about Databricks here - https://www.databricks.com/
- Learn/connect with the speakers here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-deng-376ab348/
- Discover more about Databricks in the Skill Builder Series here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeK0Tsm_E67QFwU4trdGZSjcQiTbcsBoz0
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Presented by Michelle Deng
