Insights & Essays.
Field notes for CTOs and principal engineers: what shipped, what failed, and how to staff the next AI program. Depth first — no vendor recap.
Latest Articles
Team Topologies for AI-Era Engineering: Stream-Aligned Teams and Cognitive Load
How Team Topologies manages developer cognitive load in 2026. Guide to stream-aligned, enabling, and platform teams for AI engineering.
RAG 2.0: Hybrid Search, Graph Memory, and Agent Context Layers
RAG 2.0 evolves beyond simple vector retrieval. Explore hybrid search pipelines, graph-based agent memory, and dynamic context window management.
Scaling pgvector and Qdrant: Hierarchical Partitioning and Hybrid Metadata Search
Architectural blueprint for scaling vector search to billions of embeddings. Compare pgvector declarative HNSW partitioning in PostgreSQL 17 against Qdrant distributed cluster topologies and SIMD-accelerated hybrid metadata search.
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