Databases
Relational databases are adding vector similarity search natively, reducing the need for a separate store.
Retrieval-augmented AI features need similarity search. Running that beside existing relational data avoids synchronising two systems.
Very large vector sets and high query volumes, where a purpose-built index outperforms a general-purpose one by a wide margin.
The obligations are lighter than most owners fear, but they are not zero, and a few of them touch your hosting directly.
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A visible number of companies have moved workloads back from public cloud. The reasoning is more nuanced than "cloud is expensive"…
Major platforms now offer passkeys by default, and the underlying idea removes the attack that causes most account compromises.
Encryption is no longer the main threat. Increasingly, attackers copy data and threaten publication.
Several widely used projects have moved to restrictive licences, and downstream users have had to react.
