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Almost every pgvector tutorial starts the same way. Take some text, run it through an embedding model, store the resulting vector, and search it with natural language. That is a real and useful pattern, and it is also why most engineers walk away thinking pgvector is a tool for one job: semanti...
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In 1999, Dan Kegel published his classic paper on "The C10K Problem," posing a simple question: how do you design a web server capable of handling 10,000 concurrent client connections on a single machine? At the time, the standard approach was process-per-connection or thread-per-connection. We...
The experiment was fine. The runner was the bug. A single hung API call discarded hours of completed work, and I kept blaming the data.
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