Month: September 2025

Reptile Intelligence: An AI Summer for CEP

Abstract Complex Event Processing (CEP) has long been dismissed as mere real-time infrastructure, yet it embodies the scalable, deterministic substrate that artificial intelligence has overlooked: a high-performance System 1 layer as described in Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. System 1—fast, automatic, intuitive, massively parallel, and effortless—handles the overwhelming flood of sensory (or in enterprise … Continue reading Reptile Intelligence: An AI Summer for CEP →

The Ghost of OLAP Aggregations – Part 2 – Aggregation Manager

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series where I make the case that pre-aggregated OLAP is essential in this era of AI. The intent of this post is to describe just enough of how a pre-aggregated OLAP engine works for those who are unfamiliar with this technology: Those who have joined the business intelligence … Continue reading The Ghost of OLAP Aggregations – Part 2 – Aggregation Manager →