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pgvector is excellent. It is also, at large scale, expensive — because the HNSW index it gives you wants to live in memory to be fast, and “wants to live in memory” stops being a casual statement somewhere around fifty million 1536-dimensional embeddings. At which point you reach for …
An Event for Postgres (pronounced /Pō-zet/, and formerly called Citus Con) is a free and virtual developer event. The name POSETTE stands for Postgres Open Source Ecosystem Talks Training & Education.
Features create capability. Calm operations create trust.
Most platform failures do not begin because one feature is missing. They usually begin when teams become afraid to change the systems that run the business.
They become cautious about upgrades, nervous about failover, uncertain about performance changes, and hesitant to touch architecture that has become too important to disturb and too fragile to evolve. Over time, the platform may still function, but it no longer feels safe...
