Notes from the Rows & Columns Summit 2026

Alexy Khrabrov's recording from the floor of the Rows & Columns Summit, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco on 22 September 2026 -- a practitioner-first, single-track conference on the architecture question that will not go away: OLTP and OLAP, together or apart. Andy Pavlo opened the day, and Hannes Muehleisen, co-founder and creator of DuckDB, argued that nobody knows what OLTP is and that DuckDB is moving to the middle. Alexy's own frame is fast access to data in real time set against transactional access, and why merging the two is becoming paramount for agents of every kind. He closes by saying the interviews he recorded at the summit will appear on struct.fm alongside the back catalogue.