Category: Google Cloud
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Vector Retrieval
Now that every document has been assigned a vector encoding its semantics, this opens the door to a new kind of retrieval. Rather than find documents that might be relevant to the query by searching through the search index for keywords, we can instead take the query’s vector and find nearby documents in the embedding.…
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SSTable on SSD
When I first put the SSTable server on Google’s Compute Engine, I opted for the cheapest machine: an e2-small (2 cores and 2GB ram) with a standard persistent disk of 20 GiB. When I ran the server, each request was taking hundreds of milliseconds. Installed iotop and found I was getting at most 8 MiB/s…
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Cloud Engine and SSL
Yesterday, I spent a lot of time setting up byte64.com, particularly trying to setup HTTPS and connecting it to a Google Compute Engine Machine. I learned lots and suffered just as much. I started with a single E2 compute engine VM and had Google Cloud install a wordpress service on it. From there, I looked…
