LangChain hires a lead for SmithDB, its purpose-built agent-trajectory database
Hacubu · x · 2026-09-05
LangChain's Harrison Chase and Ankush Gola unveiled SmithDB, a database built from the ground up to power LangSmith, optimized for storing and querying massive volumes of agent traces. It's serving production traffic at significant scale, with hard problems in indexing, query execution, compaction and ingestion for agent observability — and the team is hiring an engineering lead for it.
Related event: LangChain Built Its Own Agent Trace Database SmithDB, Now Hiring Lead(2 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- Burkov: if you don't interrogate Codex line-by-line at handoff, you get 80%-done work — burkov · 2026-10-21
- Mintlify launches Autopilot, an always-on agent that updates docs as you ship — stuffyokodraws · 2026-10-21
- Skills vs MCP vs RAG vs Memory: the four knowledge layers production agents need — MaryamMiradi · 2026-10-21
- When customer service bans AI agents, one goes incognito to fight Xfinity — MoonL88537 · 2026-10-21
- Every.to publishes raw interviews so readers can agent-check quotes in its Codex story — every · 2026-10-21
- One-prompt Blender: Voyager + Claude Opus 5.5 auto-connects to Blender and Unity — ravisparikh · 2026-10-21