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RAG now drives 51% of enterprise AI implementations — up from 31% just a year ago. Behind every one of those pipelines is a vector database making millisecond-level similarity decisions across millions or billions of embeddings. Choosing the wrong on...

A client came to me in early 2024 with a fully built AI agent that kept timing out in production. The retrieval step took 800ms on average and occasionally spiked past two seconds. Their users were abandoning queries. The "AI is too slow" complaint w...
