Ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City, VMblog sits down with Ajay Khanna, Chief Marketing Officer of Yugabyte, for a look at how the company is moving from distributed PostgreSQL-compatible databases to AI-native data infrastructure.
Yugabyte is celebrating its 10th anniversary. It built its reputation on distributed SQL databases for mission-critical workloads in banking, e-commerce, telecommunications, high-tech, and even gaming and betting, where downtime can cost millions. Now the company is tackling a new challenge: managing shared context across AI agents and multi-agent systems.
In this interview, Ajay covers:
- What Yugabyte does: resilient, highly available, globally distributed SQL for applications that can never go down, including customers like Shopify
- Meet Meko (Memory and Knowledge): a unified, AI-native context engine that combines vector, SQL, memory, and graph storage behind an MCP interface, so teams don’t have to stitch databases together
- Real-world results: in Yugabyte’s own engineering teams, token costs dropped by roughly 80-90%. A product that would have taken about 7 months shipped in 5 weeks, and code reviews caught 4x more issues than Claude alone
- Why context belongs to the enterprise: shared context shouldn’t be locked inside a single laptop, tool, or application, and decision tracing shows why agents act the way they do
- Avoiding the “re-implementation cliff”: why data architecture, resilience, and scalability are hard to retrofit after an AI prototype succeeds
- A live demo of Meko: data packs, shared team knowledge, conversation memory, learnings promoted to knowledge, and a seven-agent campaign management app
Make sure to catch Yugabyte at KubeCon NA 2026
Day Zero, Monday, November 9: Distributed SQL Summit at the Gallivan Center, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with hands-on Meko workshops built around the Agentic Development Life Cycle (ADLC), a lunch party, and customer speakers and panels
Tuesday, November 10, around 5:00 p.m.: session on agentic data architecture on the show floor
Try Meko free: mekodata.ai
Learn more about Yugabyte: yugabyte.com
Join the community: Yugabyte has active Discord and Slack communities for both Meko and its databases.
Company: yugabyteDB
Back to: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026
