Fixed-length chunking requires no external services, yet semantic chunking absolutely needs an Embedding API — why? The core idea of semantic chunking is to split text at semantic boundaries. Determining whether "two pieces of text belong to the same topic" requires converting text into vectors and computing similarity — that's exactly what the Embedding API does. Dimension Fixed-Length / Recur
I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora