Engineering

Columnar File Readers in Depth: Backpressure
Streaming data applications can be tricky. When you can read data faster than you can process the data then bad things tend to happen. The various solutions to this problem are largely classified as backpressure.
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Multimodal Myntra Fashion Search Engine Using LanceDB
Build a multimodal fashion search engine with LanceDB and CLIP embeddings. Follow a step‑by‑step workflow to register embeddings, create the table, query by text or image, and ship a Streamlit UI.
Engineering
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Hybrid Search and Custom Reranking with LanceDB
Combine keyword and vector search for higher‑quality results with LanceDB. This post shows how to run hybrid search and compare rerankers (linear combination, Cohere, ColBERT) with code and benchmarks.
Engineering
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Inverted File Product Quantization (IVF_PQ): Accelerate Vector Search by Creating Indices
Compress vectors with PQ and accelerate retrieval with IVF_PQ in LanceDB. The tutorial explains the concepts, memory savings, and a minimal implementation with search tuning knobs.
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