You’ve got 100K documents and a mandate to “do AI”. Do you need a real-time distributed vector database on Kubernetes? Probably not.
This talk is about the systems we overbuild, the complexity we inherit, and why most problems don’t need distributed infrastructure – at least not yet. Through the lens of semantic search (and some spicy anti-patterns), we’ll explore how to scale right: by building a single-node system so good, scaling out later isn’t a rewrite, it’s just a rollout.
Because sometimes the fastest way to go big… is to start small and actually get it right.
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