Welcoming Stately Cloud to Databricks: Investing in the Foundation for Scalable AI Applications

Today, we are thrilled to welcome the Stately Cloud team to Databricks. This transaction continues to build on our deep investment in the foundation of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Operating Mission-Critical Systems at Scale

The Stately Cloud team brings deep experience building and operating some of the world’s largest distributed systems, including at Amazon and Snapchat. Founders Alex Strand and Ben Hollis led reliability efforts at Amazon that were critical to maintaining uptime and performance during peak events like Black Friday, and delivered the global rewrite of Snapchat’s core Messaging product that modernized Snap’s services infrastructure. They continued that focus at Stately Cloud, which took an innovative approach to database schema management to eliminate the risk of outages from data model changes.

Their background spans resilience engineering and the realities of operating globally distributed systems - capabilities that are essential for supporting mission-critical workloads at enterprise scale. 

We’ll apply this experience directly to strengthening the core of the Data Intelligence Platform, helping customers build and operate the next generation of Data Intelligent Applications with confidence.

Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Era

From the Fox Sports Fan Experience to managing governance at scale at Block, the Data Intelligence Platform supports applications where availability, correctness, and speed directly impact the business. Delivering these experiences requires a platform designed to operate reliably across multiple clouds and over a hundred regions.

Reliability at this foundational layer plays a critical role. It enables Data Intelligent Applications to operate continuously, autonomously, and safely in production. As customers increasingly adopt Agent Bricks, Lakebase, and Databricks Apps to power sophisticated AI use cases, expectations around continuous availability, intelligent scaling, and robust fault tolerance will continue to grow.

By strengthening the core of our platform, we’re creating an environment where AI workloads can scale globally while maintaining correctness, performance, and operational clarity.

We’re excited to welcome the Stately Cloud team to Databricks as we continue strengthening the platform for mission-critical workloads in the agentic era.