Spotify has developed Random Access Parquet (RAP), an external index that maps keys directly to file locations in the GCS data lake, enabling fast point queries on Parquet files without the overhead o…
Zilliz released Milvus 3.0, introducing a lake-native path for indexing vector data in object storage and open table formats such as Parquet, Lance, Iceberg, and Vortex, enabling teams to search lake-…
A developer argues that most Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems fail in production due to hidden architecture problems, not broken components. The post outlines a five-part series covering d…
Hugging Face and SkyPilot have jointly launched a zero-egress storage integration that lets users mount Hugging Face Buckets or Hub repos directly into SkyPilot jobs, enabling AI workloads to run on a…
A developer describes the gap between local agent development and production deployment, where files written to a local filesystem become ephemeral artifacts in containerized or serverless environment…
A benchmark by Alluxio and Anyscale shows that using Alluxio as a distributed NVMe cache for Ray Data reduces cross-region training data read times from 4,241 seconds to 208 seconds, a 20x speedup, by…