If you inherited an OpenSearch deployment and you're now being asked to run agents on it, Q1 2026 has been unusually good news. OpenSearch 3.5 (February) and 3.6 (April) aren't incremental search improvements — they're a clear declaration of intent. "OpenSearch isn't trying to be a better Elasticsearch; it is focused on being the data layer on which AI applications are built." That's from the arti
At 100 million 768-dimensional embeddings, the gap between top-tier vector search tools isn't just measurable—it's existential. In our 6-month benchmark across 12 hardware configurations, FAISS 1.9 delivered 4.2x lower p99 latency than Chroma 0.6, while Pinecone 1.6 cost 11x more than self-hosted FAISS for equivalent throughput. Here's what the numbers actually say. What Chromium versions are ma
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed