## Blog

**Spice 2.0: Real-Time Analytical Query on Operational Data, Without ETL**  
Spice 2.0 is now available: query and search operational data without ETL using high-throughput CDC replication, Apache Ballista distributed compute, and enterprise controls.

**Barracuda Networks Gains 100x Faster Query Responses and 50% Reduction in Operational Costs with Spice.ai OSS**  
Barracuda Networks used Spice.ai OSS to accelerate Delta Lake and audit log queries by up to 100x and reduce operational costs by 50%.

**Building an Enterprise SRE Agent with OpenClaw and Spice**  
Learn how Spice provides enterprise AI agents safe, unified, and observable access to production data without exposing source system credentials.

**AWS Workshop: Federated Queries and Hybrid Search with Spice.ai**  
Deploy Spice as a unified data and AI substrate on AWS. The new workshop covers federated SQL queries, hybrid search, and LLM inference with Aurora, S3, and Bedrock.

**Localhost Latency at Scale: The Spice Cluster-Sidecar Architecture**  
How Spice's cluster-sidecar architecture gives applications, services, and AI agents sandboxed, localhost-latency query, search, and inference backed by a distributed cluster.

**Spice Cloud v2.0-rc.2: Cayenne RC, ADBC BigQuery, and Catalog Connectors**  
Spice Cloud v2.0-rc.2 adds Spice Cayenne RC, ADBC with BigQuery support, new catalog connectors, and major portal and developer workflow improvements.

**Multi-Tenancy for AI Agents without the Pipelines**  
Serve multi-tenant AI agents from disparate enterprise data sources with tenant isolation, federated SQL, and CDC acceleration without per-tenant pipelines.

**Apache Ballista at Spice AI: Distributed Query Execution Without the Operational Tax**  
Learn how Spice AI integrates Apache Ballista for distributed query execution with multi-active schedulers, fault-tolerant shuffle, and horizontal scaling.

**Vortex at Spice AI: The Columnar Format for Data-Intensive Workloads**  
Learn how Spice AI uses the Vortex columnar format in Cayenne to speed data-intensive workloads, reduce memory use, and scale concurrent ingestion and query execution.

**Introducing Spice Skills for AI Agents**  
Spice Skills gives AI coding agents -- Claude Code, Cursor, and others -- packaged instructions for setting up, configuring, and working with Spice.ai OSS.

**Apache Iceberg at Spice AI: How we Query, Accelerate, and Write to Open Table Formats**  
Learn how Spice AI integrates Apache Iceberg for zero-ETL federation, sub-second query acceleration, and ACID-compliant writes to open table formats stored in object storage.

**A Developer's Guide to Understanding Spice.ai**  
Learn what Spice.ai is, when to use it, and how it solves enterprise data challenges. A developer-focused guide to federation, acceleration, search, and AI.

**Operationalizing Amazon S3 for AI: From Data Lake to AI-Ready Platform in Minutes**  
Transform Amazon S3 from passive storage to an AI-ready platform. Real-world example using Spice and S3 for hybrid search and LLM inference.