The Economy Of Embeddings
An embedding has four costs, and one dwarfs the rest: RAM. Follow a single vector through its life and see where the database bill really comes from.
Dinesh16 min read
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Founder, CortexRidge
15+ years leading database engineering teams. Built and operated PostgreSQL platforms across AWS, Oracle (OCI PostgreSQL), Tessell, OpenSCG, and EnterpriseDB. Author of the PL/pgSQL book. Now building CortexBolt at CortexRidge.
An embedding has four costs, and one dwarfs the rest: RAM. Follow a single vector through its life and see where the database bill really comes from.
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