The Kubernetes community's announcement of Ingress NGINX's retirement in March 2026 has created an urgent need for migration planning across thousands of production clusters. With no security patches, bug fixes, or updates coming after the final v1.15.1 release, organizations must act now to avoid running unmaintained software with escalating security risks. This isn't just about swapping one ingr
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