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WHAT I LEARNED BUILDING A VECTOR DATABASE ON OBJECT STORAGE

blog.karanjanthe.me16 min read

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Building something is a great way to learn. This developer rebuilt Turbopuffer, a vector database built entirely on object storage, to understand the tradeoffs made in its development. The post follows along as they figure out how to build a vector database from first principles.