When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing — a ...

Vector databases (DBs), once specialist research instruments, have become widely used infrastructure in just a few years. They power today's semantic search, recommendation engines, anti-fraud ...

Vector databases are blowing up with massive funding rounds from Weaviate, Pinecone, and Chroma—but what exactly are they? At their core, vectors are just arrays of numbers that represent things like ...

Production-grade agents live or die on data plumbing, controls, and observability—not on model choice. The doc-to-chat pipeline below maps the concrete layers and why they matter. Production agents ...

I have successfully compiled and installed pgvector version 0.8.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for arm64 running inside an UTM virtual machine on a Macbook Pro with a M4 processor. However, when I tried to run ...

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Databricks Inc. today introduced a new serverless database called Lakebase that can process more than 10,000 queries per second. The service is based on PostgreSQL, a popular open-source relational ...

As I'm trying to maintain your docker image and stack on Unraid. I wanted to know if future updates with the immich app postgress maintained docker image: ghcr.io ...

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The Performance Advisor agentic AI application allows developers to detect potential issues before an application is deployed and offers timely insights to SREs, and platform engineers to help with ...