Decoding Backend
Hello, this is Sumit, a backend engineer working at Swiggy. In Decoding Backend, I talk about all things backend, servers, databases, performance, hosting, monitoring, among other things.
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Storing embeddings in PostgreSQL using PgVector
Posted on:October 19, 2023 at 03:10 PMIn this post, I talk about using Postgres database and PgVector to store vector embeddings in the database; we will also talk about querying embeddings, speeding the queries using indexes.
Understanding Embeddings
Posted on:October 7, 2023 at 09:30 AMIn this post I talk aobut the concept of embeddings in Machine Learning. How they are a useful tool for multiple applications such as Search, Clustering, etc. I also provide a code walkthrough of generating word embeddings for English words and sentences using OpenAI embeddings and GTE embeddings.
Recent Posts
Storing embeddings in PostgreSQL using PgVector
Posted on:October 19, 2023 at 03:10 PMIn this post, I talk about using Postgres database and PgVector to store vector embeddings in the database; we will also talk about querying embeddings, speeding the queries using indexes.
Understanding Embeddings
Posted on:October 7, 2023 at 09:30 AMIn this post I talk aobut the concept of embeddings in Machine Learning. How they are a useful tool for multiple applications such as Search, Clustering, etc. I also provide a code walkthrough of generating word embeddings for English words and sentences using OpenAI embeddings and GTE embeddings.
Writing a Faster S3 URL Signer
Posted on:September 27, 2023 at 02:30 PMThis post talks about the challenges we faced with Boto3's S3 URL signer and explore how we built our own S3 URL signer that is 10 times faster.