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
Every AI app I've shipped recently rewrote the same plumbing. The OAuth dance for Slack. Encrypted storage for an API key. Refresh-token logic that finally fails on the 3rd call after an hour. Wiring up an MCP client to a server behind a bearer token someone pasted into a Notion page.