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The Hidden Architecture Behind Dense Vector Search (and Why It’s Hard to Scale)

The Hidden Architecture Behind Dense Vector Search (and Why It’s Hard to Scale)

Most people think dense vector search works like this: embed your documents store the vectors run cosine similarity Done. This is the biggest misunderstanding in...

AI Infrastructure
27/11/2025
Distributed Vector Search: How Real Vector Databases Scale Beyond One Machine

Distributed Vector Search: How Real Vector Databases Scale Beyond One Machine

Why dense search becomes a routing, sharding, and distributed-systems problem Vector search looks simple when everything fits on one machine. It becomes a different discipline...

AI Infrastructure
25/11/2025

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