Stop building your own vector index: Why managed services are eating the Postgres ecosystem
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Two years ago, adding semantic search to our internal document analysis tool involved a bloated Python script, a local HNSW index on a disk-heavy EC2 instance, and a prayer that the index wouldn't explode when we hit 500k embeddings. Updating the index meant a full offline rebuild, which resulted i…
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Stop building your own vector index: Why managed services are eating the Postgres ecosystem