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Practical Tips and Tricks for Developers Building RAG Applications

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By James Luan
| Towards AI
Last Updated on April 24, 2025 by Originally published on Towards AI. Vector Search is Not Effortless! Vector search, also known as vector similarity search or nearest neighbor search, is a technique used in data retrieval for RAG applications and information retrieval systems to find items or data points that are similar or closely related to a given query vector. It is often marketed as straightforward when handling large datasets.
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6 Key Lessons: Building a Cloud Vector DB from Scratch

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By James Luan, Loraine Lawson, Chris Pirillo, Richard MacManus Verified
| The New Stack Verified
6 Key Lessons: Building a Cloud Vector DB from Scratch sponsor-zilliz,sponsored-post-contributed, Featured image by Mick Haupt on Unsplash. VOXPOP Try our new 5 second poll. It's fast. And it's fun! How to Optimize AI? Which is most important for AI workloads: computational performance, cost or portability? Computational performance We'd love to hear what you think. We recently embarked on a six-month journey of building a vector database cloud service at Zilliz.
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How We Built a VectorDB-Powered Cloud Service in 6 Months

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By James Luan, Tim Davis, Yujian Tang, Gorkem Ercan
| The New Stack Verified
In May 2022, our open source vector database version Milvus 2.0 was stabilizing following several significant iterations. Simultaneously, our users expressed a resounding desire for a stable, commercially hosted version of the platform. For Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, the stars seemed to align perfectly, as we were armed with a seasoned team of engineers, a product on the cusp of maturity and a fervent user base clamoring for solutions.
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Milvus in 2023: Open Source Vector Database Year in Review

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By James Luan, Kimberley Mok, Jon Udell, Jennifer Riggins
| The New Stack Verified
Last year marked a pivotal turning point in artificial intelligence (AI). Large language models (LLMs) have taken center stage, gaining widespread recognition for their exceptional natural language-processing capabilities. This surge in popularity has substantially expanded the possibilities of machine learning applications, enabling developers to construct more intelligent and interactive applications.
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OpenTofu 1.6 General Availability: Open Source Infrastructure as Code

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By Steven Vaughan-Nichols Verified, James Luan, Richard MacManus Verified, Andrew J. Brust
| The New Stack Verified
The open source Terraform fork with the silly name, OpenTofu, has arrived. Well, that didn’t take long. After HashiCorp dumped its open source license for the Business Source License (BSL) for its flagship program, infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, Terraform, the Linux Foundation helped launch the fork OpenTofu. And, now, a few months later, the OpenTofu developers have launched the first stable release of OpenTofu, a community-driven open source Terraform fork.
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How Developers Can Help Secure the Digital Fortress

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By Daniel Shugrue, Daniel worked, IoT security, James Luan
| The New Stack Verified
In the days before the internet, background checks were the only things needed to adequately protect an enterprise’s most critical digital assets. Mainframes and their databases resided in dark rooms, and their backup tapes were locked in vaults. The only way data could go missing was if a person walked out with a rather large nine-track tape.
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