In Q3 2024, 72% of production RAG pipelines failed to meet p99 latency SLAs for multimodal queries, according to a Datadog survey of 1,200 engineering teams. Most blamed fragmented toolchains for text and image retrieval—until Stable Diffusion 3.0’s embedding API and Llama 4’s 1M-token context window changed the game. This is the definitive guide to building unified multimodal RAG pipelines that c
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I've let conference attendance slide in the last few years (last was ElixirConf 2023), and would like to get back in the habit. I value them from a professional development/community POV. I've even got a trip to Europe planned in the next year and could dovetail that--since I'm suspecting that the "good conferences" are happening more and more outside of the states.